Stay with RH9? / Compiling Kernel is Better?

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Author: Alan Dayley
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Subject: Stay with RH9? / Compiling Kernel is Better?
On Sunday 18 January 2004 02:25 pm, Craig White wrote:
> Might be faster but why?
>
> You can simply upgrade to fedora if you choose...you will find things
> actually run better and faster - with a few exceptions.
>
> As discussed earlier, users .openoffice subdirectory in their home
> folder should be deleted and you may have to change 'sources' for
> up2date/yum. I found that other than that, the move from RH 9 to fedora
> went great.
>
> You can probably continue to run RH 9 for some time as it appears that
> the community may be providing errata updates for quite some time. My
> thinking is that the versions of evolution, mozilla and openoffice.org
> are much improved in fedora so the upgrade is definitely worth it.


I agee with Craig's experience here. I had some minor issues with my upgrade
from RH 9 to Fedora but the better and newer apps in Fedora make it worth
while.

See my upgrade review on the PLUG web site for more details of my experience:

http://plug.phoenix.az.us/modules.php?op=modload&name=Reviews&file=index&req=showcontent&id=6

Alan