Re: [gtkmm] Fedora Core 2

[Robert <morelli cs utah edu>]

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:31, Ramachandra Putti wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am on RH 9.0 and GTKmm 2.0.
> 
> Since there is no support for RH9.0, I want to use Fedora Core 2 as my o/s.
> 
> But I need a Pentium IV computer since Fedora is 64 bit o/s.
> 
> What are the options, risks, restrictions or limitations when i migrate to
> Fedora Core 2?

This question is a bit off topic,  but I can't help but respond because
my experience with Fedora Core 2 leaves me no responsible choice but 
to warn you off it.  I would not recommend Fedora Core 2 to anyone for
any purpose.

I have installed Fedora Core 2 on four very different machines,  two 
desktops and two laptops.  All four installations failed initially in 
different ways.  I had to try 5 times on one of the laptops before I 
had a usable system.  Fedora Core is the most unreliable operating 
system I have ever used in all my years of using computers.  It is more 
unreliable than DOS 3.3 and more unreliable than Windows 3.0,  and not
in the same class as more modern systems like Windows 2000.  Sorry to 
sound like a Windows advocate,  but that is simply the truth.

The system I am on as I write is a P4 2.8 Ghz running Fedora Core 2 
which I upgraded from Red Hat 9.  It is a disaster.  I have no time 
right now to replace it with a different distro and I have no Windows 
license for this machine,  so I'm stuck for the moment.  FC 2 crashes or
freezes up or becomes unusable at least 5 or 10 times a week on
average.  When I started out writing this response I had to stop because
my keyboard suddenly cut out.  (This is a regular occurrence for me,  
which other users have also reported.)  Before I could reboot,  a screen
saver started and the system froze up.  (It always freezes up when this 
particular screen saver,  called XFlame,  starts.)

There are about a million other things that cause FC 2 to crash,  
freeze,  or become unusable.  In addition,  it frequently misconfigures 
hardware ... etc.,  etc.,  etc.,  etc.,  etc..  I could go on for a long
time.  In addition to the instability,  Fedora Core 2 is 
extremely resource intensive.  According to the FC 2 website,  the 
minimum recommended ram for a system with Gnome is 256 MB with 512 MB 
recommended.  I can confirm that this is correct.  My 512 MB system is 
usually very close to exhausting all physical ram,  even though I do 
nothing remarkable.  (A Windows 2000 system doing similar things would 
typically use about 200 MB ram in my experience.)

OK, I'll leave it at that,  though I could write a treatise on what's 
wrong with FC 2.  Bottom line:  switch to a different distro or a 
different operating system.  Fedora Core 2 is a bad choice.

Perhaps someone here could suggest an alternative supported distro that 
is more reliable than FC 2 (and which is good for gtkmm development).

> Thanks in advance, I am sure many of you would be facing this issue.
> 
> Ramachandra
> 
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