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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

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