Serious reservations about FC2 release on 5/18

James W. Bennett silverhead at comcast.net
Mon May 17 19:11:29 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 10:20, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004 05:46:16 -0400, Phil Savoie <psavoie1783 at rogers.com> wrote:
> > Sure Sean.  This is a product.  This is no different than a car company
> > promoting a new state of the art car.  Everything works except they
> > don't tell you that the brakes that used to work in reverse last year
> > don't this year.  But according to you, if you need to back up, you are
> > a loser.
> 
> You need to be very careful about analogies to cars. Fedora is not a
> product, its important to be clear about that, its a project.
> 
> And lets also be clear about this issue and issue like it in general. 
> A lot of bugs are difficult for developers to reproduce locally on
> their hardware. A lot of bugs can arise because of complicated
> interactions between hardware and software. Whatever is happening with
> fedora in this case might be a kernel 2.6 issue, it might be a
> partitioning tool issue, it might be  a grub issue, it might be a bios
> issue, it might be a combination of all those or none.  Whatever it
> is, I'm very much NOT convinced this is as wide spread as people would
> believe. I have heard fc2t3 install dual boot scenarios that have
> worked without a hitch. Hell even one bug reporter in the comments
> tried to reproduce the problem after a bios upgrade and could
> not...that suggests something.
> 
>  
> -jef
-- 



I for one have had FC2T3 installed on my main machine since it came out
and I can't believe how solid it is. I have no problems with dual boot.
I dual boot windows 2000 and have hadn't a single problem even though I
seldom ever use windows. The Fedora software developers have done a
magnificent job.

James W. Bennett <silverhead at comcast.net>





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