Fedora 12 upgrade sucks

[Terry Barnaby]

On 11/19/2009 11:34 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> I appreciate the amount of work people put in for new releases, but I
>> would rather new releases were delayed, rather than be broken with
>> regard what most users require.
>
> The problem you have is that it's probably a single card, or a single
> variant of a single card in a specific combination that's failing. You
> can do all the testing you like in rawhide but the chances are some of
> those will always get through.
>
> Keeping the regression count down is a bit different from catching every
> single corner case - and there is so much PC hardware out there you just
> can't do the latter.
>
> Alan
>
Maybe so, but I have test installed F12 on three separate systems all have
Graphics issues (mainly 3D but 2D stability issues as well). One is based
on a Intel 945G chip set, which is still a pretty mainstream Graphics chipset.
This has 2D stability issues as well as major 3D issues.