nvidia
David Boles
dgboles at gmail.com
Mon Oct 29 16:25:37 UTC 2007
on 10/29/2007 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
>> Just curious. The firewire drive problem. Are you staing that what you
>> say, that they don't work well, is *all* Fedora and that they do work well
>> with other distributions? Or that they don't work with the kernels, same
>> number, of all of them?
>
> In fedora, whether they work or not changes as fast as the weather in
> Chicago. Other distributions don't push changes out to users just to
> see what happens. In more sensible times, there was an explicit
> 'unstable' branch for kernel development so it was clear what had a
> chance of working in a distribution. Now all the wild and crazy changes
> are thrown in the same pot and it is left up to each distribution to
> guess what is ready for prime time.
>
>> Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that they are
>> for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have switched
>> a long, long time ago.
>
> I did - and the Centosplus kernels have not given me any unpleasant
> surprises.
Interesting. CentOS 5 was supposed ti be based on Fedora Core 6 work so
now I wonder just what the difference(s) are?
As for Fedora itself. Since you no longer use it why to you care anymore?
--
David
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 250 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20071029/0f59135f/attachment-0001.sig>
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list