From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux.ubuntu
On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 18:25:05 -0700, stepore wrote:
On 8/13/24 17:46, rbowman wrote:
<snip> Both systems are stable although Fedora 40 with Plasma 6 was a
little rocky for a while.
A little 'rocky', you say? :-)
https://rockylinux.org/
That would be a better choice for a production machine. Very ancient
history -- I soured on Red Hat Linux (not RHEL) with the 7.0 release of
gcc '2.96' which was their patched version of 2.95.2 because they didn't
want to wait for 3.0. Among its other quirks it couldn't compile the
kernel so they had to include kgcc. I never bothered to track it down but
I believe going to UTF-8 by default caused problems with Python, or maybe they had rolled their own Python.
I had a machine sitting around with a very much out of date OpenSUSE 13.2
and decided to revisit the Red Hat world with the Fedora KDE spin. My main home machine remained Ubuntu 22.04 plus a Debian 11 (Bullseye) at work so
I could afford to work with any quirks. 39 wasn't bad but 40 had issues,
with the Plasma shell crashing. Quite a few patches later and it
stabilized.
I'm not a fan of the latest, greatest. Too many times it has proven to be
not so great without offering a real advantage. I don't think the kernel
will be a problem judging from the Fedora updates but it certainly
wouldn't be on my list of most requested features.
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