--- "Scot L. Harris" <webid(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 16:35, Richard Kelsch wrote:
> Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 04:52, Richard Kelsch
wrote:
> > > I like and want to use Linux, not spend hours
working out problems in
> > > getting it to work. BAD! BAD!! It's like
buying a hydrogen powered
> > > car. Sure, it's new, clean, and neato-keen
with all the nerds out
> > > there, but your screwed being to actually fill
it with fuel. Shame on
> > > you if you live outside of Seattle or San
Francisco (Fanboy capitals of
> > > the continent). Your new, bitchin' car is a
brick. The same goes using
> > > FC4 outside it's core software, your PC is a
brick as well.
> > >
> > Understand that FC is a test bed. Red Hat is
using it as a rapid
> > development platform. They will take the things
that work and
> > incorporate them into RHEL. FC is a time based
release, it will have
> > problems, guaranteed. It says this on the main
fedora web site.
> >
> > If you want a Red Hat like system that is more
stable you should try
> > Centos. It is a rebuilt version of the latest
RHEL. Currently it is
> > roughly equivalent to FC3 at the moment.
> What part of "test bed" did you not understand?
You even said it
> yourself. I tested it and found flaws. What?
Could it be you don't
> want to know about these issues? How good is
testing if you can't
> handle it when someone finds something wrong?
Think my friend. This
> is me testing FC4 and finding what I consider
problems. Learn from
> these problems and understand the word "test" more
thoroughly. When
> you "test" you are looking for problems. When a
problem is found, it
> is a good idea to fix it.
I must have missed the part where you said you were
testing things. I
read your statement above "I like and want to use
Linux, not spend hours
working out problems in getting it to work." to mean
that you wanted a
stable release to run your software on. I
recommended Centos as a
viable option to that end.
Because FC4 is a test bed for many bleeding edge
changes there will be
lots of problems that have to be sorted out.
If you are testing FC4 and find problems the proper
thing to do is file
a bug report so the maintainers of the various
packages can verify and
fix such problems. Reporting the problems on the
list will not
necessarily get the problem report in front of the
programmer
responsible for that program or module.
If you understood the nature of FC4 then you should
understand there
will be a certain amount of time that you will
"spend hours working out
problems in getting it to work." It is the nature
of the beast. :)
And if you have specific problems or questions there
are many many
people on the list that are willing to try and help.
You just have to
ask. :)
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In my opinion, Fedora (and FC4) is a good linux
distro. However, I think that any new version should
be released at least each 1 or 1.5 year, instead of
sooner. In my opinion, once again, before that period
of time (1 - 1.5 year), a new version seems to be
'premature'. Why a new version about each 6 months?
Ok. Are we 'desperate'?
Fedora is a 'test bed', but why the rush? I migrated
from Suse 9.1 Professional to FC4, because I also
realized the same king of rush for releasing new
versions, and I didn't like that distro at all.
Because of 'rush' every new version became a
'problem'.
So, once again, why to be in a hurry for release linux
distroes?
I hope Fedore be a good 'test bed'. I mean, test with
quality in mind. I think Fedora has quality in mind...
Hoffmann
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