On Sun, 2008-05-18 at 12:33 +0430, Adrin Jalali wrote:
Although I'm proud of using fedora as it is Bleeding Edge of
software,
but I think the unstable part of project should be tested by
fedora-testers, not end users, they(end users) must always feel
stable, don't you think so?
Not always possible in the real world,
as they are so many variables hw\sw.
The testers cannot cover everything,
and the end-user will get some problems.
I am also an end-user, and am more than happy with Fedora 9.
The end-user in many cases will hold off the update,
and wait for their particular concerns to be fixed\worked on.
As far as fedora use pre-release versions of softwares, it means
that
fedora developers are so courage that they use the Bleeding Edge of
software, it's so good and appreciated.
ditto
But I think what reaches the end users, must be the last stable
versions of softwares, not unstable pre-release ones. As a result, I
can not see any movie in my fedora 9 release yet.
I don't use the pc for tv so can't comment on this.
Do you think it's normal? As another illustration I think fedora
must
let users chose their X server.
You can
http://www.x.org/wiki/
I have an ATI Mobility Radeon and as the driver is not prepared
completely yet, I can not use the 3D acceleration capabilities of my
graphic card.
Talk to
http://www.amd.com/us-en/
about sharing their source, with developers.
Frank