Fedora Core 6 ROCKS ! Salute to the developers !

[David G. Miller]

Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sunday 29 October 2006 01:48, Kim Lux wrote:
>
>>> On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 16:11 -0700, Philip Walden wrote:
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>>>> > the many problems being posted
>>>> > against FC6 have given me pause to move ahead.
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>>> Just curious what you see as being "the many problems" ?
>>>
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>I think he meant 'many reports of problems'.  That fact that so many of those 
>'problems' come from not following good advice is not obvious to someone who 
>hasn't been around too long.
>
>Anne
>
For clean installs, I think the *only* verified bug is the installation 
of the i586 kernel headers with the i686 kernel.  Even this won't cause 
a problem unless somebody tries to compile something that needs the 
kernel headers.  I think the other complaints are all just functionality 
changes from previous versions (it's not a bug; it was intended) or 
people trying to do an unsupported upgrade (it's unsupported for a 
reason).  Unfortunately, these complaints create a lot of noise that 
someone new to the list might mistake for systemic problems.

The only problem I saw on my test box (clean install preserving /home) 
was the kernel headers problem.  I'll be installing FC6 on a x86_64 
laptop and a dual Athlon system later today (just preserving /home).

Cheers,
Dave

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