On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 15:01 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:07, Robert Locke wrote: > Yes, but look back at the jump between 7.3 which was a real classic > in stability and probably still running in a lot of places (I have > a few myself) and 8.0 which was just horrible. ---- you would no doubt accept that this is/was a matter of opinion and I for one, rather liked 8.0 ---- > Actually, I didn't expect it to be such a controversial issue. ---- The controversy seems to center on the fact that you have no hesitance to suggesting that others go to great lengths to solve what you perceive as problems, but they - fedora-development has decided otherwise...and of course, you used this - the users forum to address what is clearly a topic better discussed in the development forum since it is they who make these decisions. ---- > So > far no one arguing against it has come up with any advantage to > anyone in continuing to distribute known/fixed bugs. ---- I don't even understand this comment - the context isn't clear, the intent isn't clear, what you are saying isn't clear. ---- > It is not that > big a deal to me because I always point new installs at a proxy server > and pull updates immediately, but most of the other people I know > who run Linux don't bother to do that. ---- You must know some rather dense people. From the first desktop - users will see the up2date panel showing a red exclamation point - of course, these users probably wouldn't update a Windows or Macintosh computer either. ---- > The only real problem for > me has been that for every version from RH9-FC2 I have one or more > kinds of machines that will not install due to hardware problems > (each machine will run one or more versions, but fails with at least > one - and oddly, most of them were purchased loaded with RH linux). > But, I'd rather switch than fight so I've been installing Centos 3.4 > on all of those. I suspect though, that if the updates were backed > into the isos the install problems would have been fixed. ---- There is perhaps one motherboard that FC-3 cannot install on. Now if you are talking about FC-2, yes, that is getting a bit long in the tooth now but it is going to fedora-legacy RSN. Craig
