On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Gene Delitzoy wrote:
> Given the track record with redhat of how often upgrades go wrong, and
> the fact that such an upgrade requires more downtime, I think a lot of
> people will worry about that.
>
> Is fedora there to provide a good distro to users, or to exploit users
> to redhat's commercial benefit?
Is it just me or do others get the sense that some people on this list
feel that the fedora developers owe us a stable, easy to use, easy to
upgrade, rock solid distro?
Fedora as a community distro is only as good as the community.
Indeed, and it should also serve the community as well. This is the
point I was attempting to make
Have you tested the upgrade path? Have you donated money, or time in
a
meaningful way to make sure fedora has a clear and bug free upgrade
path?
If not then I wouldn't be complaining about the upgrade capabilities.
I wasn't complaing about what is there now - that's not important, as
fedora is just starting out. I was complaining about the proposed paths
- people (and I don't know where they stand in the community) were
saying "we can't do that, won't do that, shouldn't have to do that,
what's the point?" - I was pointing out the point.
As it is, I'd love to contribute to development of the distro, but
that'd mean I need a spare machine to do it on, and my financial
situation is far from rosy.
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Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer | Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (
http://www.mirror.ac.uk) | Lancaster University