Bleeding-edge Fedora

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Someone should write a response. Feel free to brainstorm here.

"Dear Distrowatch, you're completely correct in your analysis."

I mean, aren't they?  I'm not sure what kind of response is required.

--g

> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519&mode=67#news
>
> " Fedora 9 was released last week. As many users have discovered since then, 
> the latest version of Red Hat's community distribution is a rather 
> adventurous mix of bleeding-edge packages and experimental features. The 
> development version of X.Org 1.5 does not work well with any of the 
> proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers, which were promptly left out from the 
> stable Livna.org repositories. Similarly, Firefox 3.0b5 is a beta build, 
> lacking support for many popular add-ons. And there is KDE 4.0.3, another 
> experimental, buggy and feature-lacking desktop package that is forced onto 
> Fedora's KDE users without an alternative. No wonder that many users are 
> unhappy about some of the choices Fedora developers made prior to the 
> release. But as is always the case with this popular distribution, things are 
> bound to improve in the coming weeks. The first major batch of package 
> updates has already entered the testing directory, so it shouldn't be long 
> before they are pushed on to the end users"
>
> Rahul
>
>

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