FC2 vs FC3

[Daniel Villarreal]

I'd probably read up the latest reviews on FC3 at http://osnews.com and http://distrowatch.com, and try it, if I could d-l it. I have 
updates to RHL9 (http://fedora.us I think) and Whiteboxlinux.

I have an external modem that works under linux.


On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:12:56 -0500
Advent Systems <adventsystems at verizon.net> wrote:

> Daniel,
> The Up-Dater that comes with FC2 is horrible. There are systems you can 
> download to get the updates that I found to work very well, one is 
> apt-get, the other is Yum. The only other updaters I used before were 
> SuSE's YOU, it works well but only gave me the updates that SuSE wanted 
> me to have. The other was mandrake's and after freshly installing a 1 
> year old distro (9.1) it told me "system was up to date and no updates 
> were available". So you see why I like updating FC2 much better. You 
> have to do a little extra work but it's much better and I believe that 
> what linux is all about. On the other end of the scale you have 
> mswindows update where you click one button and walk away, and you can 
> only hope what it's actually doing is good.
> As far as getting the modem to work I can say this. I tried 3 different 
> distros and nothing worked. I paid Linuxant $14 10 min. latter I could 
> fire up my win-modem with any of the distros. They have gotten a bad rep 
> because the drivers should be free but , and I agree, but on the other 
> hand someone did do some work to make the drivers available (and they 
> work well) so for $14 bucks, I figured that was money well spent to fix 
> a problem that was VERY vexing to me. I would still like to get the 
> modem working on my own (w/0 the linuxant drivers) but at that time my 
> dialup connection was my only access to the internet (i had to download 
> the drivers on my win2k side).
> Just somthing to think about.
> 
> Good Luck,
> Bob Randal