Linux.org: The Fedora 7 Year Itch

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 20 20:03:24 UTC 2007


Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
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> " A while back, after publishing a review praising a past version of
> Fedora Core, I was chided by a reader who objected to my referring to
> it as 'beta' software. In my mind, it was always understood that the
> Fedora project was the test bed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> <http://www.linux.org/dist/reviews/fedora7-2.html#>, but with the
> latest versions, the project has been trying to get away from Fedora's
> being identified with the word 'beta'. Well, I'm afraid I'm going to
> have to say that I think Fedora 7 is clearly back to beta."
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> http://www.linux.org/dist/reviews/fedora7.html
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> Food for thought: Any operating system is in beta stage because they
> will never be complete.

A cursor glance suggests half a dozen oversights or mistakes in the 
review. I will probably write a response when I find time.

Rahul




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