Hello
I'm currently using Fedora Core 4 to evaluate it for when I buy a new computer (hopefully not to long from now). I ran into one problem with it a couple of weeks ago. I accidently filled the hard drive and got an error message about my running out of space. Everything was fine when I deleted the offending file, that was until the next time I tried to boot up.
The next time I tried to boot up it just hung during boot up so it wouldn't boot up. This kept happening for every attempt at booting up. I've since done a fresh re-install of Fedora Core 4 and it's working fine now.
Would Debian stable have this problem? I remember when this happened with Windows the worst thing that happened was that it got really slow but it never froze on booting up when when the hard drive was about full.
I'm starting up a web development business and I just got my first paying client so I really want a Linux distrobution that's reliable and not prone to this sort of problem. Would Debian stable still keep working (and keep booting up) even after the hard drive got too full? I'd also like to know if Debian stable is good with hardware detection on installation as well as being good for a desktop environment for general use as well as web development and software development.
Thanks
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I'm considering using Debian Stable
For what it's worth, I installed sarge on my wife's laptop, and a little while ago her hard drive got so full that after booting, X wouldn't start. But I was still able to log in as root on her computer without x, and I used apt to remove some programs and create some space on her hard drive. When I rebooted, X started again and my wife had her kde gui back.
Grieve not for happy Claudius, he is dead;
And empty is his skull.
Pity no longer, arm-in-arm with Dread,
Walks that polished hall.
Joy, too, is fled.
But no man can have all.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
And empty is his skull.
Pity no longer, arm-in-arm with Dread,
Walks that polished hall.
Joy, too, is fled.
But no man can have all.
--Edna St. Vincent Millay
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anon
Hianon wrote:debian and I'd guess most linux distributions will save a little hd space that only root can use so you won't get into this particular kind of mess (as in users may be unable to log in but root can always do it and thus fix it).
Does that mean that Fedora Core 4 (or 5) doesn't have this? The problem happened when I was copying a file from cd rom to my user account in Fedora Core 4.
With Easter coming up that would be a good time for me to change distros if I was to do that. I certainly don't want that problem to happen again
Thanks