Joe Zeff wrote:
On 01/25/2013 12:46 PM, James Freer wrote:
LOL - good reply! I must admit i do get fed up with the twin names. In the Precise version... it was very much IMprecise. Just too many bugs now to be worth using.
It often seems to me that they're too concerned about making their names cute for my taste, but I don't use it myself and keep my opinion to myself for the most. Now, alas, it's beginning to look like Fedora's going down that path instead of marketing itself as a serious distro for people who are more interested in how it works than in what it's called. Alas, from what I can see, unless I'm active as a Fedora dev (My programming skills rusted away decades ago.) the only input I have to the process is making suggestions. None of us "mere users" have a vote.
Trend which I see in my Linux "neighbourhood" is quite transparent - people switch from Fedora elsewhere: some of them to Centos, others to different distro, some leave Linux entirely. Perhaps nobody now is using Gnome3. Reasons were always same - unacceptable quantum of bugs, which solving take unacceptable quantum of time (when problem was possible tackle/bypass by himself). Or there were some SW faults which was needed solve with developers, and in many cases it wasn't solved even until distro EOL.
I myself was not afraid install Fedora at production workstations and servers, even in their beta phase - but it ended with F12-F13 (F14 was still good distro, but in beta phase there was unworkable systemd; in final release was upstart). And now I install Fedora not before several weeks after final releas - and for testing purposes only.