On Friday 01 February 2008 05:22:39 Les Mikesell wrote:
Kelly Miller wrote:
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Asking why 3rd party stuff doesn't work when they're considered outside the system is a little odd, wouldn't you say?
No, I wouldn't say that. As with any other operating systems, I expect to be able to run other programs on it.
So do I. I note that I have no problems running 3rd party programs on Fedora. I generally just choose not to. However, things like VMWare work.
It isn't Fedora's fault that VMWare's sytem doesn't work with it; ask VMWare why, since the stuff is set up by them.
When the same program works on one version of an operating system but not on another, there's nothing to ask. The operating system has clearly failed to provide a usable interface.
No Les,
Fedora specifically says it will be a bleeding-edge distro. It specifically says it will have a short release cycle and a short EOL. You can't have a bleeding-edge distro with a short EOL and have very stable interfaces.
If you want stable interfaces then go for RHEL/CentOS or Debian stable.
Did you mention things like this about Windows? Every version suffers from this problem. Just ask the people trying to switch to Vista.
Security updates are still being provided to XP so existing users aren't being forced to switch yet as they are continuously in fedora, and there's a chance they will have it mostly fixed by SP2 time. In any case I can deal with a change once a decade or so. But yes, I will complain if any of my current programs don't continue to run or else have push-button updates to fix them.
You try to buy a PC from Dell recently with XP installed. I presume most of the major manufacturers are the same. It's Vista or bust. Now lets see we had Windows-98 Windows-nt Windows-2000 Windows-XP Windows-Vista all in the last decade. That's not counting the home versions versus the professional versions. Lots of these had incompatibilities.
A chance ;-) XP-SP2 hasn't fixed XP problems why should Vista-SP2 be expected to fix Vista problems.
Tony
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