Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)
Aaron Konstam
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Tue May 15 16:27:46 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:43 +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
> At 12:31 15/05/2007, you wrote:
>
> >http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html
> >
> >What are your comments? I feel simillar.
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> I have to agree too.
>
> Like I said in reply to Gene's posting about three hours ago, I'm
> annoyed that something that was functioning perfectly (on FC5) a few
> days ago is now screwed up and not working. To the extent that this
> morning I've wiped Fedora from the hard drive of the office computer
> and installed Dapper Drake. After running the updates and setting the
> screen resolution, when I plug a flash drive into a USB socket it
> mounts it and puts an icon to the drive on the desktop i.e. it "just
> works" like FC5 used to but now does not. As the blog says this must
> be down to a lack of attention to detail and not properly testing
> updates before they are sent out i.e. human error.
>
> I doubt whether fixing things like this will now be receiving much
> priority with the F7 release being imminent, which is a shame. IMHO
> there is nothing wrong with using a fast moving distribution like
> Fedora, but when a version is getting towards the end of its life it
> should be left alone in a fully working state that we can continue to
> use until ready to upgrade.
>
> Dave F
>
All this is very interesting because I have had none of the problems
with FC5 that I had with FC6.
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