On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:53:09AM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > To be a bit blunt, it doesn't help much for people who aren't involved in > > a project to suddenly jump in to voice complaints. Generally, that's > > followed by a lot of talk (often flaming) and no actual contributions. > I don't agree with this. > I think the Fedora developers could and should make more of an effort > to get feedback from users. > My strong impression is that the Anaconda developers, for example, > have little or no idea what problems people have installing Fedora. > The same problems come up - eg difficulty reading CDs - > issue after issue. That's because it's a hard problem -- there's a huge variety of crappy hardware out there, all of it crappy in different ways. I know the anaconda developers are aware of this, because if you want to get into a protracted discussion about all these headaches and the herculean efforts to work around them or solve them, just buy one of those guys a drink sometime and they'll talk your ear off about it. :) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
