On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 20:50 +0100, Roo wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:42:44 -0400, Michael Wiktowy wrote: > The i586 bug is already known about. BZ#? Did you follow up on it in the -devel list -before- the release? > The problem is not with "binary drivers". The problem is with the faulty > Fedora install... one of many I've had. The post was an immediate report > on the installation/upgrade of an FC5 system to FC6. Summary: about the > only thing I can say for FC6, is that it's not as crap as FC5. For those > not in the know, FC5: Yeah, calling Fedora crap will surely get the attention of the devs to your reports. Why didn't I think about it? > > Broke my sound card. It was never fixed... had to get a new one. Works just fine here. [TM] (On ~20 different machines ranging from a 10 y/o laptop to 2 way dual core workstations and 4 way dual core servers) > > Broke my graphics card. The GTK developers made sure that anything after > GTK 2.6 is so slow as to be laughable. I needed a new graphics card just > to make my machine remotely usable. Never fixed -- unlikely to be fixed > since GTK gets slower with every release. BTW: The old graphics card > worked just fine under Win XP and Qt. Works just fine here. [TM] See above. > > Broke my USB broadband modem (this was eventually fixed). All USB devices work just fine here [TM]. (Printers, palm, bluetooth, usbdisks, joysticks, scanners, etc) > > All of these were dutifully recorded in bugzilla, and with the exception > of the broadband modem all were left to rot. Not forgetting the legion of > SELinux problems that I encountered, recorded in detail, only to have them > ignored and remain unfixed for two major release at least (privoxy... > yes... I'm looking in your direction). As shocking as it sounds, the Fedora devs are -not- your employees and are -not- yours to command. Yes, some bugs are left for dead and it's -your- job to try to get the devs attention if you want them fixed. (Or, better yet, report the problem upstream and try to help the devs help you - Gee, now that's a novel idea!) On the other hand, you can always bitch and moan. It'll sure get you places. > > Oh, and BTW: if you are going to accuse people of writing snotty posts... > you should probably avoid doing it yourself, and looking like a silly > hypocrite. > Here's a question for you: If Fedora is pure crap (in your eyes), -why- are -you- still using it? - Gilboa
