On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:29:36AM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: >> inode0 (inode0@xxxxxxxxx) said: >> > But I've been running Fedora as my primary desktop from F7 on and it >> > has been plenty stable for me to do my work. So I think Jeff is right, >> > it would be really nice to know more about the work they are doing >> > that exposes this "instability." >> >> So, I have a user I support that has been running Fedora as a desktop >> for many years now. I went for a couple of years without hearing any >> complaints aside from an OO.o bug. However, on upgrading to F-11 (from >> F-9), I hear about: >> >> - graphics artifacts on unblanking the display >> - constant wireless dropouts >> - odd behaviors in firefox >> >> This may be constrained to F-11 being not one of our better releases, >> but it's still not good if it's a trend. > > Which is exactly why I feel that we would be better served making a > better division between Rawhide and the stable releases. Spot's > proposal about update discipline seems like a pretty good start to me. I wondered why the new KDE release was actually pushed to F-11 as opposed to leaving the stable release train and having it in F-12. I didn't overly bother about it as I don't use KDE but I thought it was a bit strange pushing a new major desktop release to a stable release. Peter _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
