Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Les Mikesell]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On 9/11/07, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So you don't think there will ever be a Linux distribution that is
>> usable and reliable as a desktop without having to customize and re-test
>> everything before letting anyone use it?
> 
> 
> One would hope that every sysadmin test at least re-rests every
> software solution to be deployed, regardless of OS - and if that
> solution is modular, remove portions necessary to their situation.

That's a rather sad commentary on the state of the distributions and the 
lack of any framework for sharing QA and configuration work, don't you 
think, when every entity that would like to use it needs to have people 
on staff with more expertise than the packagers that build it?  That 
seems equivalent to me to saying that before you use an automobile you 
should have an employee take it apart and perhaps replace a few 
components to make it suitable for its intended use.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com