why I'm using Ubuntu instead of Fedora ATM

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 3 18:45:39 UTC 2007


Luis Villa (luis at tieguy.org) said: 
> >> '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.

True. I was looking at it from a user perspective, not a devel group
perspective. Taking out ff/tbird/oo.o removes 80 bugs, although that's
still leaving apps at the evolution/rhythmbox/totem level.

Bill





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