On Wednesday, Oct 15, 2003, at 22:22 Europe/London, Martyn Drake wrote:
I'm now running Fedora Core test release 3 which has so far proven to be a very stable and interesting distro. I may change my mind and install Debian or Gentoo later on, but I'm keen on exploring Fedora for the moment as that's thrown up a few quirks that need reporting :)
Many people I know switched to Gentoo from Debian.. reasons were:
a) Every time, xfree package gets released. You somewhat can't escape the option of having it to rewrite your XF86Config-4 file. An ex-enlightenment developer really went mad when he found out it overwrote his perfectly configured X.
b) Configuration files somewhat goes funny. Another person reported it overwrote his exim4 and apache settings. A lot of emails went missing and that wasn't happen (Even I wasn't happy since I got important emails.. *whines*)
c) Some packages just keep breaking for me (okay, I was running unstable, that's the hint ;). Okay, I should have really reported it but I won't. The last experience of reporting a package was terrible and I was reported by the package maintainer that I was wasting his time. It was one of those bugs that some people can reproduce yet he rejected it. It's unfair world sometimes ;)
I can go on and on. However, every distribution is never 100% perfect! =)
Now I need a cup of tea and fresh bowl of cornflakes....
C