End of life for FC1?

[John Francis Lee]

Well thanks for not telling me to STFU anyway.

On พฤ., 2004-06-10 at 09:07, Jim Cornette wrote:
> John Francis Lee wrote:
> > It is beginning to look as though rh has adopted the m$ mo of purposely
> > releasing a buggy product. If you want one without bugs you gotta pay...
> > and pay... and pay.
> >
> 
> I was looking at some of the other RHL releases. These releases had 
> problems also. more things were probably held back, because of a more 
> safe approach with the releases. Anyway, the releases were not bug free. 
> If you can remember back to realplayer and RHL 6. Also RHL 8 had 
> problems for me and many others related to burning discs.
> 
> I think that the Fedora release is just as intended. This release is a 
> snapshot of the current progress made. Bugs that were well known 
> prevented some programs from being upgraded. Evolution was one.
> 
> My feedback is that if you wish for a more stable release, complaining 
> about the release does not do much good. What should be done is to file 
> reports on buggy areas that concern your situation. Supply the developer 
> with what details surround your problem, ther work with the developer 
> and pool of othe users that have the same problems that you have.
> 
> As an example, I knew that xmms did not create an .xmms directory if you 
> installed a fresh install. The developer was working on resolving the 
> problem, then another user removed a patch that concerned arts.
> 
> This lead to narrowing down the problem to arts. Then another developer 
> joined in the problem resolution. Then a solution was come up with and 
> xmms works on new installs.
> 
> Help find the problem or at least report problems that you do find.
> 
> I think the RH product for money have limitations also. They are 
> probably limited by holds back on development, but they are not free 
> from problems such as the 3com NIC card problem that still has not been 
> resolved.
> 
> I don't know if the intentions of M$ or RHAT reside in releasing bugs 
> intentionally. Sometimes the picture does seem like it is an intentional 
> thing. I doubt that either make their respective products inferior just 
> to sell support.
> 
> Jim
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John Francis Lee <jfl at robinlea.com>