FC3rc5

Robert L Cochran cochranb at speakeasy.net
Fri Oct 29 23:01:04 UTC 2004


Markku Kolkka wrote:

>Kim Lux kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 30. 
>lokakuuta 2004 01:37):
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>>To me, "support" means that when I ask for advice and tell
>>someone that my installation was an upgrade they don't laugh
>>at me and tell me to uninstall and reinstall fresh.  That is a
>>Windows concept, not the sort of attitude we can have with
>>servers and workstation machines.
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>You should not install test releases to production servers or 
>workstations in the first place. A Fedora Core test release is 
>_not_ "the latest bleeding edge distro" for your machine, it's 
>meant for TESTING! In order to meaningfully test a piece of 
>software the system must be in a known state, so you must be 
>prepared to freshly install the test system at any time.
>
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Yes I agree. Never take a test release of anything and put it on a 
production or serious machine. Personally I have a bunch of spare hard 
drives that I devote to test releases. I wipe them clean and do a fresh 
install each time.

And I don't expect a 'Test' anything to work right.

Bob Cochran




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