FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 11 19:02:28 UTC 2004



On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:41:52AM -0700, Kim Lux wrote:
> > Fedora Core 3 is an outstanding OS except for a few (sometimes very big)
> > flaws.  
> [snip]
> > the release.  Why did we announce a big FC3 release when these problems
> > weren't fixed ?  I fear that this sort of thing gives Linux in general a
> > big fat black eye 
> 
> This is the nature of software -- it only _approaches_ perfection. There's
> always some little bit more to fix or improve, and if you wait for
> everything, you'll never have _anything_.

Also - spending more time during beta-testing period &
identifying/reporting breakages during that period (instead of after
release). This is harder to..

Satish




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