[oclug] Fedora Core 2

[Christian Mautner]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 08:08:54AM -0400, Zac Sprackett wrote:
> * Christian Mautner wrote:
> > Just as another data point: I have installed Fedora Core 2 on my
> > wife's desktop and I'm very pleased how well it works (installation +
> > runtime). Personally, I'm a hardcore Debian user and I haven't used
> > anything else in years, so that was was a pleasant surprise. She has
> > been a Windows-only user so far, and she is very happy with Fedora as
> > well. (I considered the step Windows->Debian to be a too radical, so
> > I went with FC2.)
> 
> Just out of curiosity here, why did you consider Debian too radical a
> departure?  Once installed, there really isn't much difference between
> distributions for the end user.  Unless your wife is building packages
> I'm not sure she'd ever notice the difference.

Several reasons: 
1) Peer pressure (her colleagues are using it) 
2) She wanted to do the installation herself
3) Last time I tried the Debian testing installation it tried to
install grub and died there. And the stable -> dist upgrade path is
somewhat non-intuitive.

chm.

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