FC2 Issues
dalen
dalen at czexan.net
Tue Jun 15 18:14:12 UTC 2004
Christensen Tom wrote:
> I would just like to publicly voice my complete and utter disatisfaction
> with you people. Redhat has been my linux of choice for 6 years, and I
> appreciated FC1, but since I can't install FC2 because of 2 very huge
> bugs (the dual booting bug, and the Asus Mobo bug) that were known well
> in advance of release, and were not fixed, and remain unfixed, I will
> never be using or recommending a redhat product ever again. You have
> seriously destroyed a good product and a good name by not following the
> #1 tenet of open source software, namely RELEASE WHEN ITS READY!!! How
> could you let 2 bugs of this magnitude go completely unresolved through
> 3 test releases and the final release when you knew about both of them
> immediately after test 1 was released in February??!! Get your act
> together re-release new ISOs that fix these 2 problems within 2 weeks or
> you are costing redhat an estimated 50k/yr in licenses that I control.
> We will be moving to Novell/Suse.
> Thank you,
> Tom Christensen
Tom,
I appreciate your frustration, but FC has time based releases rather
than WHEN ITS READY. See http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html
for details. This seems to favor more rapid development -vs- more
stability. RHEL would seem to more closely allign with WHEN ITS READY
releases.
Dale
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