On 2 April 2014 12:01, Vikram Goyal <vikigoyal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 04:40:36PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> As I have said previously, I have /never/ successfully installed
> Fedora on actual hardware since v1.0 shipped in, what was it, 2003? I
> have installed Haiku, Aros, FreeBSD, PC BSD, dozens of Linux distros,
> Windows 2 through 8, SCO Xenix, SCO Unix, OpenSolaris, OpenVMS,
> FreeDOS, DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, OS/2 1 through eComStation 2, MacOS 6
> through OS X 10.9. I am *not* a newbie and I am *not* an inexperienced
> inexpert fumbler.
>
That is toooo broad a statement. The serious problem with the UI only
began with F19/20 but which we users expect will get sorted out in due
time ( I hope ) but there was not such a serious UI installer problem
with other Fedora's. As a very old Redhat/Fedora user, I totally
disagree with you to the point that your other claims also get tainted
negatively.
I too am a "very old Red Hat user" - like you, I started in the
mid-1990s. I have successfully used -- and reviewed in print -- Red
Hat 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9, plus I've also worked with CentOS 4, 5 and 6.
The first Linux distro I tried was Slackware and the first that I
successfully installed was Lasermoon Linux-FT, the first LiveCD, with
an innovative mechanism of caching the decompressed contents of the
compressed files from the CD on the hard disk until you had a full
system installed.
I remember the hoo-ha when Linux 2.0 shipped. Heck, I remember Linux
1.0 being released, although I wasn't using it back then -- in those
days, I was a SCO man.
It is just Fedora I've had such consistent problems with. I haven't
tried it since about F17 so I am happy to take your word that the
partitioner issues are new. However, other issues prevented me getting
working installs on the previous versions. As I've said before, no, I
have not tried _all_ of them - I tend to come back for a fresh look
every 2-3 years.
I've had problems with lots of distros! Debian used to be a horror to
install; Slackware and FreeBSD still are. Mandrake once wiped all the
partitions and all the other distros off a testbed PC. Gentoo compiled
for 2-3 straight days and failed to build a working system, and its
famed customisability did not extend to, say, letting me choose my
preferred init system.
The first distro I adopted full-time was Caldera OpenLinux; later I
switched to SuSE, and from SuSE to Ubuntu, which has been my main OS
since 2004 except for periods of Mac use. I also try out each new
version of Windows when released for about 2 months, before switching
back to Unix with a sigh of relief.
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