Re: Criticism of F9 Fairness.

Quoting "José Matos" <[email protected]>:

> 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.

Firstly, I've been prodding NVidia through nvnews for about a month concerning legacy drivers. They say they're coming but... Its still frustrating. No... It means Beta software is Beta software and should not be released as a final. The fault lies with Fedora as well as Nvidia for releasing a Final Fedora release with fundamental software that every other graphical platform depends on and is known to be fundementally flawed... How do you know that.... Its Beta duh.

>
>> 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. :-)
>

Maybe... If I can find the time. But in the meantime I still need to get my stuff done.

>> 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. :-)

I am using it. The question is will the problems be fixed before Fedora 10 and end of life of Fedora 8. And if not then where does that leave me.

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

Maybe so.... But at least everything that I need it to do, it does.

>> 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 rely on you guys to help me get through my day.

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