End of life for FC1?

[Jim Cornette]

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