On 1/23/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Heh - OK, I'll play along. The experienced fedora user *knows* > there will be problems to overcome with a new release. That > would make them even more likely to want a canned virtual > machine. Or at least that's the way I see it. Visit the > list archives around prior release times if you've forgotten. > > Remember in the distant past this topic started because > people running FC3 didn't think installing FC4 made sense > at this point and were considering other distributions like > ubuntu. Shouldn't they have an equally easy way to preview > FC5 to see if it is ready for use or worth waiting for? Yes absolutely! There SHOULD be a way to do virtualization with open source technology. Feel free to dig in and help with the xen effort. In the meantime, there is absolutely nothing stopping you or any other community member from purchasing the proprietary vmware software necessary to create the image and then you and any other community member can make that image available as you see fit. I find it really really odd that you have problems with the qa of the established release process, but yet you only trust the established fedora project release team to provide the player images for users. I smell a contradiction. -jef
