why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Luis Villa]

On 1/3/07, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dave Jones (davej at redhat.com) said:
> > The question then becomes where do you draw the line?
> > 'Gnome' covers a pretty large package set, and I'll wager that
> > 'gnome + kernel' probably covers the majority of the bugs that get filed.
>
> Total FC6 bugs filed: 2826.
>
> Kernel: 427
> GNOME: 578 (includes: apps, OO.o, firefox and kin, as they're really
> 'desktop')
>
> So, 35%, give or take.

For the purposes of this line drawing you have to look at development
organizations, not functional groupings, so GNOME != desktop. I'd be
embarassed if GNOME's bug fixing and prioritization were as bad as
OOo's, for example, or if GNOME's release cycle were as broken as
firefoxes.

Luis