Linked by Jason Parker on Mon 20th Oct 2003 18:01 UTC
Fedora Test 3, is, most certainly, as the name says, a test. In my experience there are a few problems and a few bugs that would keep me from recommending it as an everyday desktop replacement, but nonetheless, Fedora is an Operating System (distro) worth watching out.
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What I want in a distro is something with a decent apt or yum repository that can be easily updated, is reasonably up to date, and just stays out of my way.
Debian is no use for this because it is so ancient. The standard debian party line is "track unstable", but the problem there, see, is that its unstable. I don't want to update and find that the package is broken or a bunch of dependencies are messed up. I used to run debian unstable but it kept on breaking my system completely, so no thanks.
Gentoo is source based and I can't be arsed with waiting 12 hours for KDE to compile or messing about with hundreds of config files.
Fedora seems pretty great to me, been running it since Test1 and its always updated without problem and been a breeze really. The only problem is that the package database is quite small - 700 packages or so. I often need little bits and bobs that're not in the package database and result in a massive netsearch for appropriate RPMs. I don't know if they plan to grow the package database to large proportions, but I doubt it somehow. They dropped galeon from Test3, which suggests that they're not concerned with having a huge repository for users to choose from but rather in providing a standard out of the box solution with little legroom.
Ach. I might just go back to SuSE. All I want is a large, reasonably recent binary repostory that can be quickly and easily updated via apt/yum. I'm not sure if SuSE embraces this sort of stuff (??) - mandrake does but whenever I've tried it it has been full of annoying bugs. What to do, what to do!