I’ve had it. Fedora can rot in hell.
For the second time, trying to upgrade Fedora using the aptly named Fedup, the “You must update every 6 months” once again gave me an unbootable system (the test system)
Ubuntu promises minimum of 5 years before support and security updates may be withdrawn. Fedora says after a year, you’re on your own. That’s completely unacceptable, and would be more so if a business was using it.
So Ubuntu is now installed on the test PC (the machine with Windows XP underneath). It was a little rocky as I had /home on its own LVM partitions, and wiped out the main lvm partition. Being the cautious person I am, I had done an cp -a of both the / and /home directories to another EXT4 partition that is now my new /home
Dell recently announced it is offering a ~$250 system with ubuntu preinstalled.
Firefox did an excellent job of syncing my bookmarks without having to do a thing. Most of the audio used for streams seems to work “out of the box”…
Getting Apache and MySQL (MarieDB) working will probably take a little time. The “Gold” copy of everything is on the production server, and the win7 machine is a backup to this one if I had totally destroyed the Fedora /home directory
You have the patience of a saint. I used to use Mandriva about 10 years ago. Finally had enough and went back to XP.
When the “free” Windows 10 upgrade suddenly becomes a rented OS, I may switch to Ubuntu.
Up until the withdrawal of XP support, my test machine was the XP machine running Apache and MySQL under XP. It worked okay, but I never would think of exposing it to the Internet.
Ubuntu is working on the test PC, although having /boot on an LVM partition wasn’t clever 😉