Of course I think Mike meant to say "I have EVERY reason to believe that our new OS release will be as stable, reliable" :) otherwise, he's definitely confirming the original posters opinion :) sorry, could resist! Tom On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote: > "Fedora Core" to date has only been a test release (previously > called betas), so to compare that with an official release such > as Red Hat Linux 9 is comparing apples to oranges. The > Fedora Core 1 release is what people should be reviewing once it > is available, and knowing the resources and manpower that went > into the development of this release, and having been a part of > that, I have no reason to believe that our new OS release will be > as stable, reliable, etc. or better than any previous Red Hat > Linux release. > > However, no software is 100% perfect, and people who use any > given release may not encounter any problems at all, while other > users may encounter a few or even many depending on their setups > and usage patterns. Like any previous release, there will be > people who love it and think it's great, and there will be people > who hate it and think it sucks. Any major development such as a > Linux distribution knows these things from the get go, and > accepts them. The age old cliche rings true: > > "You can please some of the people all of the time, and > you can please all of the people some of the time, but > you can't please all of the people all of the time." > > We do however do our best to try, and I think we do so very > successfully even when a minority of people aren't happy with the > end results, as there will always be people who fit that > category. ;o) > > > > -- _______________________________________________________________________ Tom Ryan Voice: 856-225-6361 Consulting System Administrator Fax: 856-969-7900 Rutgers School of Law - Camden
