On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 15:09 +0200, Bruno wrote: > However my conclusion is this week-end I'll move back to Fedora (even if yum > is so far behind dpkg). > > Bye, > Bruno >
Fedora is an *experimental* operating system, etch is a *beta*. Neither one should be used in any kind of production setting, production being defined as you need all features and packages working all of the time. However, its your laptop :) You need it to work and I'd imagine want to be on familiar ground. If you want to tinker, check out www.backports.org , and sit down for an evening to install Sarge and then pick and choose what you need. Again, if you enjoy breaking stuff, then fixing it .. its a fun thing to do and really gets you indoctrinated to how Debian works. I manage over 2000 production servers scattered across a dozen countries (about 12 clusters + some isolated farms), and I'm advising - Debian is worth the initial hassles. Most of my servers are an Admin's worst nightmare - shared web hosting... I insist on Debian. Yum in and of itself is fine .. it does its job rather well, provided the packagers do theirs :) Debian *really* puts effort into package consistency. Fedora just releases too often to do this.. its just too much work to try to keep up on broken packages. Its not a knock against Fedora, more of a reality check on what you can expect. If you really need your laptop working, give CentOS a whirl before you go back to Fedora on anything important. I *like* Fedora because so much of an effort is going into it and it does break quite a bit of ground.. but realize the nature of the beast you are working with :) Sounds like your headed out of the pot and back into the frying pan.. Best, -Tim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
