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):
>
>
>>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.
>>
>>
>
>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.
>
>
>
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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