Fedora / RedHat - The problem
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 05:13:08 UTC 2008
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Brian C. Huffman wrote:
>> Alright I hate Microsoft. I really do. But here I am at 11:45pm on
>> a Sunday night and my wife needs to print a paper for tomorrow.
>>
>> My Fedora cups / samba server worked before and now it doesnt. Was
>> it an update that broke? I dunno. But this is why RedHat / Fedora is
>> never going to take the upper hand. Reboots on both platforms, a bunch
>> of tcpdumps and still no idea. No real user should have to go through
>> this. Sure Ill figure it out. But is that what someone wants when
>> theyve got a paper to print thats due tomorrow?
>>
> Sorry to hear about your problem. Yet, your post sounds a bit of knee
> jerk reaction and a bit of venting. Neither of which does anyone any good.
>
> To counter your reaction....I've been using RHEL for quite a few years
> and never had a printing problem. Well, maybe that isn't quite
> accurate. I did have a few problems about 2 or 3 years ago when I
> changed my printer configuration and forgot a few tricks or maybe the
> tricks changed. Too long ago to recall.
>
> Anyway, that doesn't mean that updates in Fedora don't break things from
> time to time. But, when it does happen it is a good idea to report the
> problem (a bug or on this list) and then report the fix. Just
> venting...and not giving any clues is just not being helpful. Some may
> even consider it to be whining.
>
> FWIW, instead of venting....maybe you could have told folks what your
> problem is/was and they would have responded with "Oh, yes, I've seen
> that...the fix is....".
or irc://freenode.net/fedora , often the fastest way to a fix
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