5-star Fedora experience

[Gary Waters]

The gOS kiddie linux ( yes, I know I'm gonna get hell for that ) based 
on ubuntu 8.4 which was installed on my mother's laptop, gagged on some 
update which came in and crashed the x-server. I was already fed up 
about listening to complaints about poor performance, pidgin certificate 
error messages with her MSN account, and other issues. I decided it was 
time to try Fedora again. Previously no fedora releases would work on 
her crappy acer notebook because of the obscure SIS graphics chipset. 
gOS, now defunct, did work and seemed perfect for a 73 year old granny 
who just got her first computer and was too paranoid to use windows for 
online banking ( sometimes reading "internet for dummies" is NOT a good 
thing. :-)

I downloaded the 32-bit Fedora 15 XFCE live cd, ran it, noticed there 
were no oscillating yellow lines going down the LCD screen and installed 
to hard drive. There is a God! My 75 year old mother loves it! She keep 
IM'ing thank yous. It was 100% compatible with her SIS craphics, the 
wifi strength is now well into the 90% range instead of the 60% range, 
and pidgin is the latest version ( I couldn't get it updated on that 3 
year old gOS instllation ).

She raves about the ease of use. She raves about how she prefers the 
fonts. She is stunned by the speed, and positively loves the layout. I 
let her take a look at gnome 3 on my computer and she went "how cool." 
In any case, she was right. I downloaded the XFCE 64-bit live CD and 
installed to my notebook. It is very decent indeed.

I just wanted to post something other than "doom&gloom" for a change. ;-)

GW