Bleeding-edge Fedora
Greg DeKoenigsberg
gdk at redhat.com
Mon May 19 13:47:13 UTC 2008
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Someone should write a response. Feel free to brainstorm here.
"Dear Distrowatch, you're completely correct in your analysis."
I mean, aren't they? I'm not sure what kind of response is required.
--g
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080519&mode=67#news
>
> " Fedora 9 was released last week. As many users have discovered since then,
> the latest version of Red Hat's community distribution is a rather
> adventurous mix of bleeding-edge packages and experimental features. The
> development version of X.Org 1.5 does not work well with any of the
> proprietary NVIDIA graphics drivers, which were promptly left out from the
> stable Livna.org repositories. Similarly, Firefox 3.0b5 is a beta build,
> lacking support for many popular add-ons. And there is KDE 4.0.3, another
> experimental, buggy and feature-lacking desktop package that is forced onto
> Fedora's KDE users without an alternative. No wonder that many users are
> unhappy about some of the choices Fedora developers made prior to the
> release. But as is always the case with this popular distribution, things are
> bound to improve in the coming weeks. The first major batch of package
> updates has already entered the testing directory, so it shouldn't be long
> before they are pushed on to the end users"
>
> Rahul
>
>
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Greg DeKoenigsberg
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