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Testers & Developers,<BR>
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I think somewhere along the way netizens appear to think that Rawhide is stable ( or at least for public consumption). I'd think we need to discuss how we can provide more constructive information for developers and send a clear message to non-testers that Rawhide (a.k.a FC5 ) is not for general use.<BR>
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I really don't have any suggestion has to how we can achieve the latter without offending people, but I'm sure someone will. As for the Former, I'm sure I've seen some documentation on how to write constructive e-mails on fedoraproject.org in relation to testing Rawhide and going about debugging.<BR>
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Maybe there's some way of redirecting people to the testing documentation before posting ( or at least posting the right details with associated attachments and what not).<BR>
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I hope this can inspire some constructive ideas to help us all.<BR>
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Peter Tiggerdine. <BR>
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On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 21:21 -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Stanton Finley wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> My Intel onboard 82915G/GV/910GL Express Chipset Family Graphics</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Controller used to run glxgears at blinding speeds with FC4 and I didn't</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> even have to install a driver for it on my eMachines T5026.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">The driver comes with FC5 of course. Not sure why you think you need</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to install a driver elsewhere.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> It just worked great out of the box on FC4. Now with FC5 (in the absence</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> > of glxgears which apparently I can't get on FC5)</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Except that you are wrong, and glxgears is part of FC5.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> my 3d graphics and</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> screensavers run jerkily and seem sluggish. Firefox 1.5 rendering time</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> is abysmal compared to Firefox 1.0.7 on FC4 on this same machine. It has</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> a 3 GHz P4 processor for heaven's sake. It should run FC5 like the wind.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">That's why it is a test release, to find bugs. Don't use test releases</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">if you expect flawless OS operation and perfect performance.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Mike A. Harris * Open Source Advocate * <A HREF="http://mharris.ca">http://mharris.ca</A></FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Proud Canadian.</FONT>
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