FC2 Issues

akonstam at trinity.edu akonstam at trinity.edu
Thu Jun 17 14:04:32 UTC 2004


On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:12:59PM -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:54:11 +0000
> "Christensen Tom" <paveraware at hotmail.com> 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.  
> 
> Umm, Fedora is *NOT* a RedHat product.  It is a community project sponsored by RedHat, but it is explicitly not a product supported by RedHat.
> 
Statments like this make me angry. The people who distribute fedora
work for RedHat. RedHat distributes Fedora. Fedora is a redhat product
used to test ideas that
will be put in the Enterprise system. Tom got over heated but many of
us who can't afford to buy 80 RedHat Enterprise systems must rely on
Fedora. And there is no reason that known bugs can't be fixed.

We can't afford to licence 80 Windows XP systems either.
> 
> > 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!!! 
> 
> Fedora is considered to be a "cutting edge" distribution for "new technologies and enhancements that may be incorporated into Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the future."  It is explicitly not recommended for production applications.  For that, Red Hat Enterprise Linux is explicitly recommended.
> 

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