On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Russell Miller <duskglow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 13 March 2010 02:21:35 pm Marcel Rieux wrote: > I use Fedora. I even somewhat like Fedora. I suppose we do. Otherwise, we'd be using another distro. Does this mean that, because maybe 20% of the 1% Linux users on the net use Red Hat or Fedora, Google won't, in 5 or 10 years from now, wipe Fedora off the map? Unfortunately not. If I didn't care about Fedora, I just wouldn't care. I'd watch it crumble to crumbs and move to whatever is available at the time. But I care because I believe Fedora has potential. This said, what I'm discussing here is Fedora's development model vs Google's development model. I suppose that as usual, most people's answers will be just bashing. I won't answer this. If anybody can explain how fiercely fixing bugs will hinder Google's development, I'm ready to listen. I want to discuss facts. I said having a default repository for software that is judged top by users would probably wipe out half the go nowhere projects off the map and make the rest really struggling to get to the default directory. I didn't get a single answer about this. So, what sense does it make to answer that Fedora is just repackaging software made by developers it has no control upon? Where does this lead? Nowhere. Still, this is the kind of answer some people here seem to favor. It's not my case. What use is it discussing all the "it's no use" opinions? I don't get to Red Hat's offices every day and it's hard for me to figure out how things could work better, but this also came to my mind. I believe Red Hat participates to the kernel development. If the fact that my BIOS options are not available is kernel related, maybe, after something really think he has fixed the problem, I could test the new kerenl on my hardware. a database would be needed for this. But, as a non-developer, I'm certainly not going to join the release early, release often stampede in Rawhide. Even subscribing to Test Updates would be way too risky for me. But, for my hardware, I'd be ready to test. Of course, the brawlers will answer "And who will organize the database? You, maybe?" Of course not! But, weird as I am, I do believe that, though you might spend time getting organised, in the end, it pays off. Anybody interested in discussing solutions is welcomed. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
