On 10/21/2009 11:52 PM, Colin Walters wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> As Colin says, Fedora's general philosophy is and has historically been >> that it's more important to fix the bugs than to worry about temporary >> bodges and workarounds for the immediate experience. > > Well, sort of. I don't think it's wrong to add a workaround or > warning box in some situations even it's ugly; more what I'm saying in > this particular case of graphics drivers is the payoff to engineering > time ratio is really small. > > The get-fedora page or the docs should make clear that if the Live > system[1] doesn't work, it won't work when installed either. > > [1] I really hate calling it "Live", it should be *the* image. Magazines like to distribute the DVD images because in many places, getting big packages like Openoffice.org off the internet is not really feasible. The Live CD is a very bare bones system and doesn't give a good experience to first time users. They are missing critical packages. Rahul -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
