Important question!

[Claudiu3001]

Hello, I'm not a Fedora user, but I'm thinking on installing it after VBox crashed my Ubuntu. A friend of mine told me that Fedora is buggy and after the application buggs are resolved they are included on RHEL, but not in Fedora this buggs remain... How true is that? Thanks!

[stevea]

That's not an accurate portrayal of the situation.

The intention of the Fedora is to include leading edge software. As a result stability is lower than on some other distros. Problems in Fedora are fixed regularly. Every week there are dozens of package updates (sometimes hundreds). Fedora releases occur every 6 months and support for the old releases is dropped after ~15 months. So for example F11 support will be dropped soon.

So if you choose Fedora I think you have to accept that either ... your installation will lose support quickly. ... or you'll need to update, re-install and/or upgrade regularly.

Because of the "leading edge" package selection, the rapid pace of updates, bugs and config are part of the Fedora story. I would not advise you put Fedora on your Granny's PC and walk away. Similarly if you are an end-user looking for that "just works" characteristic, then Fedora will disappoint.

The packages used on Fedora are mostly upstream packages with redhat specific patches and/or configuration. These packages and patches slowly transition to RHEL, with some additional changes perhaps. It's very wrong to say bugs aren't fixed on Fedora.

Because you've used Ubuntu for a while then I have no doubt that you can manage Fedora. Maybe you'll like it or perhaps not, but you can deal with the Fedora hiccups. I have some qualms about Linux noobs who install Fedora.

[SlowJet]

Try it and see for yourself.
It is not poison nor will it actually break anything except for itself.
F13 release will install and run just fine on 85%+ i686 machines.

http://fedoraproject.org/

SJ

[bob]

BTW, if you choose the "stability" of Red Hat but don't need or want to pay for the Tech Support, the no-cost version is here: http://www.centos.org/

[Claudiu3001]

Thanks for your responses. I have some bad experience with fedora from two years ago, but I like how things are organized in RHEL/CentOS. I attended some RedHat Courses 2 months ago and i like how things are going. But the ideea is that RHEL/CentOS is more for servers, not for end users. I want on my laptop to use a stable fedora with vlc, something to listen music and flash player. I don't know if in CentOS i will find those things or even more if in the future I will want to add new applications to my operating system. I think i will try the new Fedora 13. Thanks!
P.S.: Excuse my English, I'm not an english speaker, so I'm sure that I made some mistakes!

[glennzo]

Fedora 13 runs wonderfully on my 3 year old Toshiba laptop. Fedora 12, 11, 10 etc. also ran wonderfully on this laptop. Sound and video included. Great desktop distribution IMHO.