Re: Fedora's intended target audience?

[Hans de Goede <j w r degoede hhs nl>]

Rahul wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
>>
>> As said before I only own radeon 9200 cards, so do all the people who I
>> give Linux support around me. So this is not about all user but me at
>> all. Wasn't it Linus who said that regressions where not acceptable,
>> even if the patch causing the regression was a big boon for other users?
>> I agree with Linus on this, breaking things for a group of users,
>> because this helps other users is IMO not the way forward.
> 
> If we are going to start quoting Linus as the guide,
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/159313/
> 
> " Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only
> modules, it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones,
> and I want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in
> a cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules."
> 
>>
>> And here we still are hammering on the Xorg 7.1 example, which is just
>> that an example!
>>
>> Here is another one, why ooo why, does inserting a ptp camera still not
>> work as non root? We had a big rouse about this on the list around
>> FC5testX or was it around FC4 release. I don't remember. Still this is
>> not fixed, which is very user unfriendly.
> 
> Is there a bug report?
> 

There was when it was discussed some time ago, I assume it hasn't
disappeared so yes.

Regards,

Hans