Fedora Core 2 Problems
Gordon Keehn
gordonkeehn at netzero.net
Tue May 25 15:36:47 UTC 2004
Wayne Steenburg wrote:
[Snip!]
>
> Running system-config-mouse and selecting your mouse *should* take care
> of problems 1 and 3.
>
>
*WRONG ANSWER!* If FC2 were truly ready for general distribution,
this would never have happened. Failure to detect and configure known
and supported devices during installation is a sign of sloppy testing
and (by implication) a rushed distribution cycle. Failure to have
drivers for a major video card in time for a release is another. I see
this pointing up a basic flaw in the philosophy behind the Fedora
Project. In a completely free (in the "Free Beer" as well as "Free
Speech" sense) environment there is no incentive to compete, and
therefore no reason to strive for excellence. I would rather pay a few
dollars (as I did until Redhat got greedy) for each upgrade, expecting
that it would work out of the box, and knowing that, if it didn't, I had
someone smarter than I to call.
I know that Fedora is by design a bleeding edge distribution, but
the impression I have received from this mailing list since the release
last week is that FC2 has hemorrhagic fever. I upgraded from RH 9 to
FC1 two weeks after release and have not had any problems since. So far
everything I've read tells me I don't want to touch FC2.
Cheers,
Gordon Keehn
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list