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@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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