Fedora 18, future isn't too good as it seems :-<

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Tue Nov 6 17:36:16 UTC 2012


Reindl Harald wrote:
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>
> Am 01.11.2012 04:55, schrieb Junayeed Ahnaf:
>> I'm seeing that Fedora 18 has been delayed 5 times already, and this post from Michael isn't looking too good
>> either: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxODk
>
> so what
>
> often i would love there would not be any announced release date
> and a new version is released if it is really ready and not
> bugs/porblems which may affect many users are classified as
> less important at the finish
>
>> Distro like Ubuntu and Suse almost never fails there shipping date, what do you think about Fedora's consecutive
>> delays? Doesn't it hurt it's adoption rate to end users?
>
> finally free software DOES not need the same bullshit as marketing
> driven comanies do "release for the sake of a release and let
> us fix broken things sometimes in the future"
>
The other side of that is that there is no penalty to taking a new feature off 
the list of things to go in one release and putting it off until another.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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