Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Les]

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:09 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 May 2007, David Fletcher wrote:
> >At 12:31 15/05/2007, you wrote:
> >>http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html
> >>
> >>What are your comments? I feel simillar.
> >>
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> >I have to agree too.
> >
> >Like I said in reply to Gene's posting about three hours ago, I'm
> >annoyed that something that was functioning perfectly (on FC5) a few
> >days ago is now screwed up and not working. To the extent that this
> >morning I've wiped Fedora from the hard drive of the office computer
> >and installed Dapper Drake. After running the updates and setting the
> >screen resolution, when I plug a flash drive into a USB socket it
> >mounts it and puts an icon to the drive on the desktop i.e. it "just
> >works" like FC5 used to but now does not. As the blog says this must
> >be down to a lack of attention to detail and not properly testing
> >updates before they are sent out i.e. human error.
> >
> >I doubt whether fixing things like this will now be receiving much
> >priority with the F7 release being imminent, which is a shame. IMHO
> >there is nothing wrong with using a fast moving distribution like
> >Fedora, but when a version is getting towards the end of its life it
> >should be left alone in a fully working state that we can continue to
> >use until ready to upgrade.
> >
> >Dave F
> 
> I have to violently agree with these thoughts Dave.  I've questioned if this 
> is not some tactic to get us to upgrade by destroying the install we are 
> currently running, just so they have a freshly minted test laboratory again.
> 
> Maybe that's being paranoid, but the facts certainly suggest it to anyone with 
> a 3 digit IQ.
> 

Darn, No wonder I don't understand ;-)

Regards,
Les H
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