Fedora Core 2 Problems

[Gordon Keehn]

Wayne Steenburg wrote:

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> 
> Running system-config-mouse and selecting your mouse *should* take care
> of problems 1 and 3.
> 
> 

    *WRONG ANSWER!*  If FC2 were truly ready for general distribution, 
this would never have happened.  Failure to detect and configure known 
and supported devices during installation is a sign of sloppy testing 
and (by implication) a rushed distribution cycle.  Failure to have 
drivers for a major video card in time for a release is another.  I see 
this pointing up a basic flaw in the philosophy behind the Fedora 
Project.  In a completely free (in the "Free Beer" as well as "Free 
Speech" sense) environment there is no incentive to compete, and 
therefore no reason to strive for excellence.  I would rather pay a few 
dollars (as I did until Redhat got greedy) for each upgrade, expecting 
that it would work out of the box, and knowing that, if it didn't, I had 
someone smarter than I to call.
    I know that Fedora is by design a bleeding edge distribution, but 
the impression I have received from this mailing list since the release 
last week is that FC2 has hemorrhagic fever.  I upgraded from RH 9 to 
FC1 two weeks after release and have not had any problems since.  So far 
everything I've read tells me I don't want to touch FC2.
    Cheers,
Gordon Keehn