Linux examined: Fedora 9

[Rodrigo Menezes]

We have here 2 bugs who is not been seen as a
advantage for Fedora. Some users are angry, and Ubuntu
users love these problems to show that our distro has
bugs in the release too. The first one is 3 versions
old (yes, Fedora 6 problem):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221336

Second, this is not a bug, is a decision made and
users who has Synaptic Touchpad are angry with that:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=439386

Questions, this problems should be fixed, but when?

Cheers,

Rodrigo Menezes


--- "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com> escreveu:

> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 23:52 +0530, Rahul Sundaram
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have to review the complaints here and address
> them. If anyone wants 
> > to take a closer look, please do.
> > 
> >
>
http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=E800C1E1-17A4-0F78-316FA48755E1A1AB
> > 
> > "On the whole, Fedora is a solid Linux
> distribution that will probably 
> > serve you well for desktop usage. Red Hat can
> rightly claim extensive 
> > experience as a commercial Linux vendor; it
> practically invented the 
> > market. Installing Fedora is a good way to ensure
> an extensive 
> > repository of prebuilt software. The hardware
> support is right up there 
> > with any other user-friendly distribution.
> > 
> > But my experiences with trying a multiboot install
> make me leery of 
> > recommending it to anyone who wants to use it in a
> dual-boot 
> > environment. The distribution may be robust, but
> the installer needs to 
> > learn to play better with others. It's also a
> little too intimidating 
> > for nongeek users, so if you're going to get any
> less-experienced 
> > friends on Fedora, you might want to schedule an
> afternoon to help them 
> > out."
> 
> I'm confused by the article's premise.  The author
> claims to be testing
> on the basis of whether a "newbie" could install
> Fedora, but he tests it
> on a system that is completely unrelated to that use
> case -- a
> previously multi-boot system with what sounds like
> several existing (or
> previously existing) Linux distributions.  
> 
> Some of the errors he encounters are certainly bugs,
> and I've already
> seen some of these reported in other places.  An
> example is the Anaconda
> error loop, which the author reports but did not
> file, although he filed
> another bug, so bravo there.
> 
> I think something our QA folks (Will et al.) should
> think about is a way
> to expose more details about the test configurations
> they use for
> banging on the installer.  These could be exposed to
> the media for our
> Alpha or Beta test release, as well as our larger
> user base, to make
> sure that people are expanding on those
> configurations, rather than
> duplicating them endlessly to the exclusion of
> others.
> 
> -- 
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