The Fall distribution release period of 2003 was not the most interesting, nor the least interesting in recent memory. For the most part all of the distributions got better, but not so much that those running distributions now going on a year in age are really missing anything terribly substantial. OfB.biz did find a few interesting points worth revisiting, however, and those deal with Mandrake Linux 9.2 and Fedora Core 1. Read the whole look back at the last distribution release cycle at OfB.biz.
Just About Right: Revisiting Mandrake 9.2 and Fedora Core 1
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He mentioned FC2 becarefull, I installed it last night and am still up @ 4:30 trying to recover my XP partition. If you duel boot wait till these bugs get ironed out.
Got to love those grades though, alot of A’s. Thats probably a bit too nice. Fedora has great potential but still some chaos. like no complete documentation, Mirror issues, and expediant security updates. Other than that its pretty good.
> He mentioned FC2 becarefull, I installed it last night and
> am still up @ 4:30 trying to recover my XP partition. If
> you duel boot wait till these bugs get ironed out.
Well considering that FC2 is still in beta and based off some software that wasn’t released at the time it was made (e.g. GNOME 2.6) and this is the first beta that includes Security Enhanced Linux, it doesn’t surprise me at all there are some issues to iron out. Did you submit a bug report?
hmm yea one should wait for both stable releases of mandrake and fedora(fedora being in beta and mandrake being in community mode). Of course I have installed and run Mandrake 10 on an old 1ghz hewlett packard for my freind and it worked like a piece of cake so it probably depends on the hardware setup whether someones is going to work or not.
That being said im kinda wish one of the two would actually support ppc 😀 that way i could have the latest kde version. But alas no, so I have to wait for Yellow Dog.
I’ve been running linux for a number of years but have yet to have an installed system that I’ve been so happy with that I’ve chosen an upgrade over a new install. With my RH9 box I’d love to upgrade to FC2 when it comes out. How good are Redhat’s upgrades? Is it safe? What gets changed? what stays the same?
Cheers in advance. Tom.
Hi
I always upgrade and it has worked flawlessly everytime for me
Jess