Linux Action Show! Fedora 8 hatchetjob review

[David Nielsen]

Chris and Bryan over at the Linux Action Show Podcast took the time to
play with F8 for 2 weeks. If you poured your heart and soul into Fedora
I'd advice not listening to the following.

http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=158

- David

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 16:44 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> Chris and Bryan over at the Linux Action Show Podcast took the time to
> play with F8 for 2 weeks. If you poured your heart and soul into Fedora
> I'd advice not listening to the following.
>
> http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=158

Highlights:

- Icons between the desktop and menu are inconsistent
- Nodoka is ugly
- The red swatch in libnotify is awful
- Anaconda is dated
 * Partitioning prescreen is useless/confusing
 * Did not detect other existing Linux installs for grub
- Live media install tried installing files before formatting was
  complete
- grub screen was a bit "off" style-wise
- GNOME Online Desktop is underwhelming
- Fedora should focus more on the desktop
- NetworkManager *needs* to be integrated with s-c-network (my
  interpretation)
- A point release with fixes would be nice to see

OTOH, codeina and PulseAudio worked well, and s-c-firewall shows
promise.

[Michael Beckwith]

All in all, I think the review is a good thing and shows some criticism 
that I wasn't necessarily seeing in other reviews. They highlight a lot 
of points to work and improve on for Fedora 9+

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 16:44 +0100, David Nielsen wrote:
> > Chris and Bryan over at the Linux Action Show Podcast took the time to
> > play with F8 for 2 weeks. If you poured your heart and soul into Fedora
> > I'd advice not listening to the following.
> >
> > http://www.linuxactionshow.com/?p=158
>
> Highlights:
> Icons between the desktop and menu are inconsistent
> Nodoka is ugly
> The red swatch in libnotify is awful
> Anaconda is dated
> Partitioning prescreen is useless/confusing
> Did not detect other existing Linux installs for grub
> Live media install tried installing files before formatting was
> complete
> grub screen was a bit "off" style-wise
> GNOME Online Desktop is underwhelming
> Fedora should focus more on the desktop
> NetworkManager *needs* to be integrated with s-c-network (my
> interpretation)
> A point release with fixes would be nice to see
>
> OTOH, codeina and PulseAudio worked well, and s-c-firewall shows
> promise.

[David Nielsen]

man, 26 11 2007 kl. 14:50 -0600, skrev Michael Beckwith:
> All in all, I think the review is a good thing and shows some criticism 
> that I wasn't necessarily seeing in other reviews. They highlight a lot 
> of points to work and improve on for Fedora 9+

My main beef with this review was that it was mainly based on the
subjective opinion about our new look. I e.g. really like it, I think it
looks much more professional than anything we had before.

Any real criticism sadly drowned in the sea of insults. It's a theme,
say you don't like it and make some suggestions to improve it, don't
harp on the "it plain sucks" line for 5 mins that's not constructive.

- David