FC3 disappointment: KsCD locks system; grip; CDROM in general.
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Thu Nov 11 16:59:04 UTC 2004
I am using FC3 because I needed KDE3.3 for a package I had to build.
(kdevelop.)
I knew that someone was going to reply with a "if you can't take the
heat get out of the kitchen". That is the wrong answer ! I didn't say
I couldn't take the heat. I just fixed my CDROM issue. The problem is
that when we release software with these issues in it, we give Linux a
black eye. How many reporters are going to test FC3 and write a column
that says "CDROM didn't work, sound didn't work." OS software is
inferior. ?????? Journalists have no patience and they aren't technical
and they inform a lot of common joe users.
The suggestion about running FC2 is invalid as well. FC2 was released
with bugs and they are still in the distro. For example: it was shipped
with an issue in disk druid that would wreck dual booting with XP.
There is a work around, but the point is that the Fedora Core released
it in the first place. An FC2.1 release covering a few of these issues
would make the world of difference.
BTW: If you don't run FC, what are you supposed to run ? I don't like
SUSE with its yast stuff. I am not going to run debian. RH8,9 and FC1
are abandoned. About the only other mainstream Linux is Mandrake. I
like the way RH does things, so I run FC3. I am an advanced user, but
what about joe average user ? Maybe that is what whitebox Linux is
for.
On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:48 +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Kim Lux wrote:
>
> > However, I think there should be sub releases in between releases that
> > do nothing but make the previous release perfect.
>
> Nothing like setting your goals high...
>
> Fedora isn't supposed to be making a perfectly stable safe distro. It aims to
> be a little bit more "out there". Non-Objective #1 sums it up nicely.
>
> If you want to complain about FC3 being buggy, don't use it. FC2 is still
> being supported, so why are you running the absolute bleeding edge?
>
> jh
>
> --
> "My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you
> become a monk, you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter, and
> wound up Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso
>
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Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc
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