> Todd Walton said: > > > > If a person were, at this moment, considering installing and running > > the Fedora distribution, would there be a benefit to waiting for FC4? > > Since it's so close, I mean. >
I likes Neil's answer. Let me add this ... but first, let me qualify myself by telling you my distro and upgrade philosophy. I'm one of those people who want the distro to "just work." My passions, beside using Linux for my daily platform, lie in the app development area with data base back ends and scripted front ends. I rarely find my work or hobbies awaiting the next release. I have learned not to dink when dinking is not absolutely necessary. I have also been historically a Red Hat guy. When I started, RH was the only real quality distro for someone like me who wanted to install and use. Now there are others, and I'm occasionally tempted to switch during the periods when RH is not as good as it should be, but I haven't yet. The great unwashed still equate RH with Linux for better or worse. Since I'm interested in Linux in the work place, this also keeps me close to RH. That said, some of the RH releases have been much better than others ... and some have been a PITA. Generally upgrades are good. X and Gnome improve. Features get added. New is better. But sometimes, newer is awful. Not frequently, but enough times to have left scars. So the approach-avoid conflict is, do I rush to the newer, better release and risk getting a lemon, or do I wait until it's almost obsolete? My best recommendation is to be on the cautious side. I wait 6 months, sometimes more before I reinstall my desktops, more for servers. The time I've spent backing a new rev out or living with bugs has not been happy time. We used to say never upgrade RH until at least dot-one, preferably .two. I think this attitude was one of the reasons RH cut loose Fedora and stopped using dotted revision numbers. Good luck with FC 4 ... and be sure to tell us all how it goes ;-) -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
