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Experience with Fedora

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I used to use and love Fedora Core* up to version 7. After that things started to go very very wrong for me with Fedora, Core or not. It would randomly crash, updates would fail and when they did appear to work, various pieces of software would be horrendously broken. Heaven help me after a kernel update. I think the most spectacular was from version 11, when running the post clean install updates failed with package a depending on package b depending on package a, followed by a crash and a complete failure to boot! Despite this, I have tried every version up to 16 with exactly the same result (HowTos)

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Submitted by xiooo on 07/12/2012 – Made popular on 07/12/2012

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