Re: Criticism of F9 Fairness.

On Tuesday 17 June 2008 05:44:46 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
>
> I've been mostly staying out of this debate because I'm not a voting
> member. However, I must say that most of the criticism that I've read on
> the net has been quite fair regarding Fedora 9.
>
> While being experimental people rely on it also to get their work done.
> Problems with NVidia drivers,

Ugh?
That means no new xorg release ever as nvidia is waiting for a distribution to 
release the new version. If all the distributions wait for nvidia we then have 
a deadlock. The criticism should be directed to nvidia, not fedora.

> Xinerama problems with X Windows. (IMHO and
> with much appreciation to the very hard work everyone is putting into
> Fedora) a brain dead KDE 4.0x. And everyone caught in the same RH 8 mode of
> thinking that because its newer its got to be better.

This is a non-argument. Come you should at least test what you are going into 
and with the new live images (as there are for KDE in Fedora) you don't even 
need to install to test it. :-)

> Bleeding edge thats great. But not so edgy that the users relying on the
> software start bleeding. We rely on and need our desktop to play games, do
> real work, surf the net, access information on computers and on the network
> etc.

Fedora 8 is still supported, what is holding you from staying there? Notice 
that this is a general question, not necessarily addressed at you. :-)

By some standard even F-8 is still and edge distribution (I am not thinking 
about Debian before you ask ;-) ).

> Please consider this when putting out Fedora 10. Maybe its time to slow
> down a little and take a breath huh? Just a little :).

I surely hope not. The Fedora motto is to follow upstream and that is a good 
motto even if sometimes brings some inconveniences. :-)

> Eli

-- 
José Abílio

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