Re: FC3 upgrade - X is hosed :( (LONG)

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Hi

> 
> I must have misunderstood the Fedora release process, because I
> installed the FC3 release assuming that show-stopping bugs would have
> been eliminated, or the release would have been delayed. I note from
> Bugzilla that this problem was evident in FC3 Test3, and it seems pretty
> lax to have allowed a release knowing such a serious bug was present. Is
> a core 'release' really a beta? Does anyone here who follows the release
> process care to comment?


My take on how to deal with fedora releases

1) this might not really be a show stopper bug if its a relatively
rare case. I know this would be annoying neverthless but it would pass
the release criteria.

2) being a time based distro fedora is likely to have more problems
than say debian stable.. since gnome and openbsd and even RHEL seems
to be doing a good stable time based release I believe the bugs that
you see are the result of the sticking with upstream most of the time
and moving really fast.


If you dont like this you have a few choices

* stick with an older version and choose whether you want to upgrade
*after* a delay of say two to three weeks when most of the major
issues would be revealed and you can be comfortable knowing what to
expect

* move to rhel/clones which wouldnt give you the latest of greatest
but is likely to be more stable

* move to another distro like Ubuntu which has a time based release
but only does security/bug fixes till the next release instead

regards
Rahul Sundaram


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