Fedora philosophy (was ATI video comes out of the closet)

[Simon Andrews]

Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 17:12 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Should we take a poll on how many people want their machines to be
>> unbootable after an update?
> 
> I can't say that I've experienced that, and I've been using Linux for
> quite a few years, now.  I can say that I've seen some showstoppers when
> some driver has been updated on Windows, and reverting that can be quite
> a nightmare.

Unfortunately it does happen.  A recent example on one of our machines 
is at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249853

No recent kernels are bootable.  Having provided all the debugging info 
I can it seems that this is too much of a corner case to grab anyones 
attention.  However, it's a machine which will have to move off Fedora 
come F8.

I have to say that my experience with bugzilla has not been great. 
Quite a few bugs reported and followed up.  Very few fixed.

Simon.