On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 16:43 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:18 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Am I the only one who finds this very frustration. To look at CNN news > > you need one secret and FoxNews another secret, This does not speak > > well for FC6 being a stable useful distribution. > > Is this really a FC6 issue, or a Firefox issue? > Well it depends on you point of view. In the world of open software versions of Linux decide to supply a set of necessary application types (browsers in this case) that are produced by other organizations. Whose responsibility is it to see that firefox works, or gnome works in the context of FCx? What is the purpose of the testing phases of Fedora? Either Fedora has to supply its own mplayer, browser , flash plugin that works in the distribution or see that the program suppled by others works. I would not say this for more off the wall applications but every user expects that there essential applications work. Otherwise we can't attack Microsoft. I know that in some sense in this case it is partially the fault of CNN or Fox. But I am frustrated since I have to spend weeks every 6 months or so to make the next Fedora version work. I know I could use Centos or pay for RHEL from my spare cash. I just want to share my frustration this time. Next week I will go on to something else, like figuring up why XML is not working for me at the moment. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
