Re: Fedora stability

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz simpaticus com>]

At 14:55 12/31/2003, you wrote:
> Read the posts that went before and then read the last paragraph of my post.
> In context, my remarks were on-topic.

I disagree. Someone started wandering off-topic by asking for Debian 
comments in a thread about Fedora stability, and you continued to wander 
further off-topic, especially WRT to the OP's intended question. What he or 
you ideally should have done was simply to start a new thread or rename the 
subject in your posts, which would have made it clearer that you were 
discussing some other thread.

However, it is not a crime to wander off-topic nor to discuss Debian 
(especially as compared to Fedora, which is sort of the point around here), 
so it's OK. Nobody has called you names for it.

> You might also take the time to read the posts which were instigated by this
> thread -- all expressing uncertainties about Fedora installation (in context
> of other OS installations).

Again, I disagree. Most of the posts I read (and I did read the entire 
thread) were complimentary to Fedora, arising from _one_ question about 
whether Fedora was stable or not. Nearly all the posts that mentioned 
Debian, OTOH, were not complimentary. Still, your reading and my reading of 
the thread are allowed to disagree, so again it's OK. No one minds if you 
and I disagree.

> You telling me I can't use the word Dxxxxn here without arousing a list cop's
> sniping?

This I do mind. Good Lord, man, did you not take your medicine this morning?

Jeff prefers to keep as much integrity of subject in a thread as possible, 
and commented that IHHO the Debian questions were off-topic. Nevertheless, 
he did answer the question and did so with a helpful comment. What 
_exactly_ are you bitching about? The helpful comment, or the (gentle, 
IMHO) reminder that you had wandered away from the original topic of the 
thread?

Sheesh.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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