I didn't specify at the outset of this discussion, but I have only two complaints
regarding this issue and neither of them have to do with software patents, GPL, multimedia
and related issues. Those things are insignificant from my perspective. What I hate to
see is Redhat going down. Whether any of you believe it or not, Goliath comments aside,
they have given themselves a black eye in the minds of many loyal supporters over the past
couple of years. For me personally, the #2 issue is system stability. In their quest to
be bleeding edge or whatever you want call it, I think we have sacrificed way too much in
reliability and stability. I understand the devlopment schedule, testing methodology etc,
as justifiable reasons therein. Initially I thought it was a great thing and eagerly
awaited every release looking forward to the things I would be able to see and test for
the first time. However, lately that has degeneratde into a situation I cannot
accept as the seeming recklesss abandon with which thay've gone about it.
That's really all there is to it. I can easily deal with these issues and that's
why you don't see me posting here asking for help. But it has reached the threshold
for me that I am not really enjoying it any more. I don't use my PCs for anything
unusual or complex, just ordinary home office servers and workstations, with pretty much
last generation plain vanila hardware. Despite that, I have lost count of the number of
times and hours I've spent in the last two years fixing really dumb stuff like having
the network just stop working after an update. Sure it's easy enough to run the
previous kernel for a few days or a week until the fix appears, but that gets tiring after
awhile when it becomes a continuous ongoing fear of loading new kernels. Sorry, but to
me, things like that (and there are MANY more), and the frequency whith which they are
ocurring just don't cut it for something being offered to the public, I don't care
what justification for
software philosophy you offer. Some of it just seems like sloppy work to me
So I'll cross my fingers and take another step into F9. If things don't improve,
I suppose I'll just sigh and continue being a disgruntled Fedora user. But fewer of
my machines are running it these days, and that trend seems likely to continue.
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