On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:07:14 GMT, Bruce Coryell
wrote:

>I'm currently using FC2 (tried FC3, found it hopelessly buggy, and went
>back to FC2). Is FC4 any better than FC3? Or should I just wait a few
>weeks and get FC5? (Is Fedora still on the approximately six month
>release cycle? If so, FC5 would be coming out in Nov. or Dec.)

Here's the link to the Fedora Core 5 Schedule:

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/

I had some trouble with Fedora 4 and ended up going back to Core 3,
which I don't have any trouble with after I ran 'yum update'. I had
trouble with Fedora 4 with the desktop, however, I was reading that it
might have something to do with my video card. (ATI Rage IIc) The
screen was fuzzy and jumpy on the right hand side and there were
garbled horizontal lines at times.

Other than the video problems,Fedora 4 was stable and highly usable,
and packed with a lot more features than Fedora 3.

David

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:07:14 +0000, Bruce Coryell wrote:

> I'm currently using FC2 (tried FC3, found it hopelessly buggy, and went
> back to FC2). Is FC4 any better than FC3? Or should I just wait a few
> weeks and get FC5? (Is Fedora still on the approximately six month
> release cycle? If so, FC5 would be coming out in Nov. or Dec.)

Don't know when you tried FC3 but it's completely solid now. FC4 is also
pretty reliable at this point. Any Fedora release is crap when it's first
released, as time goes by it gets better and better. As a general rule of
thumb it takes several months after a release before a particular release
reaches a point where it's good enough to use for real work.

If you are going to do an upgrade you should probably choose FC4. FC4
isn't quite as bug free as FC3 but it's reached the stage where it good
enough for almost all uses. FC4 also feels faster than FC3, don't know if
it's because of improvements in Xorg or in Gnome, but it definitely feels
quicker.

One more thing, the first thing that you have to do after an install is do
a yum update. The ISOs are never updated so they always come with the
buggy initial release code, yum update fixes it.

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:07:14 +0000, Bruce Coryell wrote:

> I'm currently using FC2 (tried FC3, found it hopelessly buggy, and went
> back to FC2). Is FC4 any better than FC3? Or should I just wait a few
> weeks and get FC5? (Is Fedora still on the approximately six month
> release cycle? If so, FC5 would be coming out in Nov. or Dec.)

It would be nice if you can be specific. I mean what is buggy in FC3?
Though I no longer used FC3 but I used and enjoyed it before. I currently
use FC4 and I'm satisfied as well. I am a very big fan of fedora since
FC1. I will always recommend it to any serious Linux user. -

Stan!