FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

Hoffmann oasf2004 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 29 22:07:39 UTC 2005


--- "Scot L. Harris" <webid at 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. :)
> 
> -- 
> Scot L. Harris
> webid at cfl.rr.com
> 
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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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