Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Mon Jan 23 02:19:47 UTC 2006
Hi
>No, as a side effect of this install the Fedora distribution
>would be tested, and if anyone cared it could be fixed before
>releasing the broken iso images. If I didn't make that clear,
>the FC5 test1 isos were broken in the video handling, not vmware
>player and that's that needs the support. I'd guess that the same
>breakage applied to real hardware in the same way as the vmware
>emulation and it has been fixed in updates. I'm not surprised at
>a test release having such breakage, of course, but I hope we agree
>that it would have been in everyone's interest if it had been
>noticed and fixed before anyone downloaded those isos. It's
>not a matter of having to do extra support since this had to
>be fixed anyway - it's a matter of how many people see and are
>inconvenienced by the broken version and form their opinions
>based on it.
>
I am sure people can calliberate their expectations according to the
appropriate notes within the announcement, installer, release notes etc
about this being a test release. Users are intelligent to understand
that test releases might have bugs.
--
Rahul
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