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Parrish: Why I’ll Be Updating to Fedora Core 5

[ Thanks to Carl
Parrish
for this link. ]

“I’ve stepped away from living on the edge. I no longer download
the lastest nightly of Firefox nor grab each and every test version
of OpenOffice. My time has become a much valued comodity and
generally speaking I just don’t need the latest and greatest
anymore. My business and even my home network requires stabilty.
Therefore each release of Fedora is thoroughly evaluated before I
decide if its worth taking the time to install on my various
systems. FC4 got me because I needed to have PHP 5.0, MySQL 4.1.
and OpenOffice 2.0. Actually, so far the only version of FC I
decided to pass on was FC2, but it was certainly my intent to pass
on FC5. I didn’t think there was going to be anything in it that
required an upgrade….. Until now…”

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