[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Greg Edwards]

Dennis Rice wrote:
> In Fedora's desire to be on the bleeding edge and only support those 
> that wish to be developers, I am dropping it.
> 

> 
> that they are orienting the OS to a select group of users and thus 
> cutting off many other users.  If they want the mass user base to keep 
> using their OS, then they need to make it usable and issue a quality 
> product.  I did not request the upgrade to 13, it was forced upon me and 
> from that point on the quality of the system deteriorated.  I will now 
> be switching to another distribution.
> 
> Dennis Rice
> 


Dennis,

I gave up on RH distributions a long time ago.  I truly appreciate the 
contribution that RH made to the Open Source community in the beginning. 
  Then again the ultimate motivation was their IPO and cashing in.  I've 
dealt with RHEL and Fedora for clients and each time my opinion has been 
reinforced.

If you want an extremely user friendly (non techie) distribution, I'd 
suggest Mandriva.  With a KDE desktop, even my wife is comfortable 
managing it.  My last Mandriva upgrade was 2008 so I cannot totally 
vouch for the current release.  But I haven't heard of any major 
screaming from the user base.

--
Greg E