From: "Gordon Keehn" <gordonkeehn@xxxxxxxxxxx> > *WRONG ANSWER!* If FC2 were truly ready for general distribution, > this would never have happened. Failure to detect and configure known > and supported devices during installation is a sign of sloppy testing > and (by implication) a rushed distribution cycle. Maybe. The impression I've had is similar in some respects. > Failure to have > drivers for a major video card in time for a release is another. Absolutely wrong. Check NVidia's site. They refuse to put out drivers for test releases for distros. This means that *NVidia* was unwilling to work on their FC2 driver until after its final release. There may or may not be a fault with NVidia here (depending upon philosophy), but it's definitely *not* with the Fedora Core team. > I see > this pointing up a basic flaw in the philosophy behind the Fedora > Project. In a completely free (in the "Free Beer" as well as "Free > Speech" sense) environment there is no incentive to compete, and > therefore no reason to strive for excellence. I would rather pay a few > dollars (as I did until Redhat got greedy) for each upgrade, expecting > that it would work out of the box, and knowing that, if it didn't, I had > someone smarter than I to call. Okay, I've had my issues with FC, as I'm sure that all on the list realize. However, I think you're completely wrong on this. FC may have its problems and may have a hard time keeping up with its published release cycle, but (from an outsider's perspective) they sure as hell are doing their best to compete and to put out a quality product. In spite of my frustrations wth RH for their business direction, and in spite of my frustrations with getting FC to be my only desktop environment, I have no doubt that FC is the best free distro available. Just because the project's goals don't meet your needs (and sometimes mine) is no reason to make baseless accusations. > I know that Fedora is by design a bleeding edge distribution, but > the impression I have received from this mailing list since the release > last week is that FC2 has hemorrhagic fever. I upgraded from RH 9 to > FC1 two weeks after release and have not had any problems since. So far > everything I've read tells me I don't want to touch FC2. LOL...I had the same impression of FC1 that you've had of FC2. Sure, some things are broke, but the problems that *I've* had have to do with the kernel, not the FC team. If you want to go back to RH, there's always RHEL WS... > Cheers, > Gordon Keehn > Ben Weiss
