FC5 -> FC6 my experience

[Roo]

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:57:28 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:

>> Broke my sound card. It was never fixed... had to get a new one.
> 
> Works just fine here. [TM]

Stupid pointless response.

> Works just fine here. [TM]

Stupid pointless response.

>> Broke my USB broadband modem (this was eventually fixed).
> 
> All USB devices work just fine here [TM]. (Printers, palm, bluetooth,
> usbdisks, joysticks, scanners, etc)

Stupid pointless response. Three strikes.

>> All of these were dutifully recorded in bugzilla, and with the
>> exception of the broadband modem all were left to rot. Not forgetting
>> the legion of SELinux problems that I encountered, recorded in detail,
>> only to have them ignored and remain unfixed for two major release at
>> least (privoxy... yes... I'm looking in your direction).
> 
> As shocking as it sounds, the Fedora devs are -not- your employees and
> are -not- yours to command.

Oh be quiet you silly fool. 

> Yes, some bugs are left for dead and it's -your- job to try to get the
> devs attention if you want them fixed. (Or, better yet, report the
> problem upstream and try to help the devs help you - Gee, now that's a
> novel idea!)

Here's a novel idea... people should pay attention to bugzilla. Shocking
suggestion, I know.

> Here's a question for you:
> If Fedora is pure crap (in your eyes), -why- are -you- still using it?

I'm not. I dumped it when I started having yet more problems after
upgrading.