why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

[Luis Villa]

On 1/3/07, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> 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.

(Not to say that GNOME is perfect, and in fact I believe it has been
getting steadily worse over the past few years as Novell and Sun have
withdrawn from using HEAD. But it does some things much better than
OOo or ffox do.)

Luis