Rahul Sundaram wrote:
I don't know of any Fedora application that works with Fedora kernel 2.6.x.y-n that does not work equally well with vanilla kernel 2.6.x.y . That is what I mean by orthogonal.
There have been some examples in the past seen in bugzilla. These are treated as bugs and fixed.
If an application does not work with a current vanilla kernel, then in my view there is a bug in the application, not the kernel.
It used to be much more difficult than it is today, because Torvalds and team have cleaned things up and organized them better. In my view the Fedora developers could learn a lesson from this. Fedora is becoming much too spaghetti-like.
That's amusing since "Torvalds and team" includes Fedora developers. Red Hat is the largest commercial contributor to the Linux kernel.
That does not contradict what I said in any way. It is the organization of Fedora that I am talking about, not individual applications. I repeat: in my view Fedora is becoming too complex, and would benefit greatly from simplification and organization.
Do you have bug reports on what you consider "sphagetti-like".
A "spaghetti-like development" is not a bug. Examples of what I mean would be most audio and video aspects of Fedora-7. Also things like conflicting config generators, as eg system-config-printer contrasted with the web interface to CUPS.
Nb This is not a serious criticism of Fedora, simply a response to those who were arguing that I was wrong in preferring to keep distribution and kernel orthogonal.