Does Fedora 8 deserve intellectual welfare

[Juan M. Rodriguez]

hymno wrote:
> Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 09:00 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Marc
> Wiriadisastra:
>   
>> "Fedora 8 came out today and quite frankly, it sucks. I’m a Fedora user
>> and I run Fedora on about 10 servers right now, including this one that
>> hosts Dvorak Uncensored. But even though I’m a fan I think that it’s
>> time to end the intellectual welfare that all the Linux reviewers give
>> it and raise the bar to the same standards that commercial software is
>> judged by. What is that standard you ask? It’s the standard of “does it
>> work”. My conclusion - no - it doesn’t. Fedora 8 is broken."
>>
>> It seems like a rant more than anything from my point of view. Some
>> valid points but overall a rant.
>>
>> http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453
>>
>> http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Dvorak_Uncensored_Fedora_8_Sucks
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Marc
>>
>>     
>
> Parts of the 'review' are not very credible:
>
> "Being an expert, I (...)
>
> (...) Since I had a 1280×1024 screen, I wanted to see it in the
> resolution that the screen supports. So I ran the display configuration
> and set the Monitor to Samsung 712n which was on their list. (...) 
>
> After selecting the correct monitor, I returned to select the resolution
> and even though I had selected a 1280×1024 monitor I still couldn’t
> (...)
>
> I could have started trying to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but
> decided f*ck it. Why should I spend several more hours on Fedora 8 just
> trying to get it to work with a standard size screen? I have better
> things to do. (...) "
>
> Excuse me, is editing xorg.conf "several more hours" of work, and for an
> "expert" at that?
>
>
>   
Lets pretend for a second he said instead he was an old granny, there's
no excuse as to why someone should need to edit the xorg.conf, the
system-display-conf is there for a reason. If it didn't work as
intended, his point is perfectly valid.
(Though it shouldn't take him more than a pair of minutes to tweak a
string... ;) )

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Ing. Juan M. Rodriguez Moreno
Freelance Software Developer & Designer
Fedora Mexico Ambassador
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