Re: Criticism of F9 Fairness.

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 05:38:50 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Yep... You got it... But seriously. When software goes gold, you wouldn't
> expect that the foundations are half finished would you. You shouldn't have
> to read any prerelease anything for that would you? Xwindows provides the
> foundation for everything... well... hmmm... let me see... Xwindows... If
> Xwindows is buggy then everything that runs under Xwindows is buggy. If you
> run into a problem is it the software or Xwindows?

Eli I know you from a long time here so I can place your message in the 
correct context.

So with this said I would like to point the following, you have just a couple 
of examples to show that the version of XWindow (please not the capitalization 
and the absence of the last _s_) is buggy for most people it works.

It is not because a software is declared stable that bugs simply go away.

OK, just to give you an example of what I mean, I am the release manager of 
LyX, I have been working with it for a long time and at a certain point I have 
decided to compile old versions just for fun.

I am speaking of versions prior to the qt-frontend that were xforms based.

For some time there was a bug in the Xorg version (and XFree86 before) where X 
would simply blow up if I tried to run any ancient version of LyX. That is a 
bug no matter how buggy the application is the server should not crash.

Another case was when at a certain point all kernels refused to boot on my 
laptop. For some reason the BIOS would give the wrong address of some PCI 
setup.

What I am saying is that if something bad happens to us it is a catastrophe, 
if it happens to others it is a statistical number. This means that I can 
understand your frustration but that does not prove that this version is 
buggier than the previous. :-)

> What are we doing running a free version of Windows.... (sarcasim - Not
> flame bait).

Some of my windows friends disagree they think that is becoming prettier than 
windows. Really. :-) I was using the latest kde 4.1 beta 1, specifically the 
new kmail and the korganizer and I got a wow from the guy next to me. :-)

> Eli

-- 
José Abílio

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