A word of appreciation

[William Penton]

Peter Silcock wrote:
> I can understand the frustration of those who are installing FC2, just 
> want it to work, work out the box, and work straight away, yet find 
> themselves confronted by error messages and misdemeanours.  Although 
> I've had one or two problems myself since moving to Red Hat 9 last year, 
> and twice been through the cycle of depair and try another distro (only 
> to encounter the same problems there), on the whole it's been a great 
> experience.  I'm not a natural team player but I appreciate all the 
> effort that the OS community puts into improving the quality of the 
> distros and especially the kindness of strangers.  Thanks to you all.
> 
> Doubly sad to find people driven to simple abuse and aggressive 
> tirades.  What really surprises me about all this is that so many people 
> seem to be developing SIS/SSS* as if it is some kind of contagion spread 
> by FC2 installs.  And we're not talking about newbies here (although a 
> newbie who gets lippy deserves a slap, perhaps).  What's an allegedly 
> experienced sysadmin doing running FC2 for business critical apps 
> anyway?  If he worked in my place I'd suggest a change of occupation.  
> How many hundred warnings and statements of purpose does it take to 
> drive home the message that this is an experimental release?  If you 
> want stability, try another distro - surely that's not too hard to 
> understand.  What ever happened to piloting, prototyping and testing?  
> And for heaven's sake RTFM.
> 
> So thanks to the mailing list correspondents who teach me stuff and add 
> to my appreciation of Linux in general and Fedora in particular.  A pox 
> on the others.
> 
> Peter Silcock
> 
> * That's Sudden Illiteracy Syndrome and Sudden Stupidity Syndrome.
> 
> 

I agree.  Many of the threads are full of people complaining about this 
and that rather than asking for help. It's like males asking for 
directions.  They need them, but would die before asking for them. 
Despite those select few people, I find on whole this list to be quite 
lively and helpful.  Thank you to all that contribute help to those who 
need it, and thank you to all the people who ask for help (because we 
all know there are lots out there who would rather not ask for help).


Thanks again
William Penton
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