Secondary architectures and marketing

[Dialup Jon Norstog]

Dear Dominik, & list:

I have not seen you posting much to this list.  Those who are regulars on this
list know that I help out any way that I can.  

I don't have anything against RedHat, in fact I own stock.  But I think the
Fedora group is perhaps too closely identified with RedHat's corporate
interests.  The other thing I think would help is a longer period of user
testing between releases.  

A single car wreck could wipe out the entire team of Alpha maintainers -
assuming they were all riding together. It is impossible for them to keep up
with the Fedora schedule.  If there are unworkable things in Fedora, then they
will be unworkable in the Alpha version as well.

As to my specific complaints about Fedora 10, I could file bug reports, but
unfortunately these are "features" of the distro.  FWIW, I really like Fedora 6.

jn



 




---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski" <D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl>
To: axp-list at redhat.com
Sent: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:56:53 +0100
Subject: Re: Secondary architectures and marketing

> On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 11:52:16AM -0700, Dialup Jon Norstog wrote:
> > Matt, & list:
> > 
> > I have Fedora 9 running on a PC and have had enough experience to find a few
> > things about it that rile me.  Worst and most prominent is you have to hack
> > the installation in order to log on as root. You can YUM up the codecs etc. to
> > play DVDs but they don't work
> 
> Huh? What exactly doesn't work? All your multimedia needs should be satisfied
> by RPMFusion.
> 
> > and Fedora, Inc.
> 
> Fedora isn't an incorporated company.
> 
> > isn't about to help you fix that.
> > It is short of the libs you need for Grass and Qgis  GIS,
> 
> Are these proprietary binary-only apps? Which libraries are missing?
> 
> > and it hasn't worked with a source-built Qcad since about FC1.
> 
> Do you have a detailed problem description on that? Have you reported
> this issue to Qcad developers?
> 
> > Other things:  changes in KDE - I like the CDE desktop theme. It's gone.
> 
> Have you filed a bug report about this regression? Maybe the CDE 
> theme didn't have a maintainer and was thus dropped. Are you willing 
> to maintain it?
> 
> > I like having a different background for each screen.  That's gone.
> 
> Bug report link?
> 
> > I was just getting used to the Evolution email client.  That's gone.
> 
> That's a lie.
> 
> > Rant, rant.
> 
> Yeah, that was easy. What seems to be hard is doing something about it.
> Why don't you try some constructive approach for a change?
> 
> Regards,
> R.
> 
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