Re: Does Fedora 8 deserve intellectual welfare

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hymno wrote:
Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 09:00 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Marc
Wiriadisastra:
  
"Fedora 8 came out today and quite frankly, it sucks. I’m a Fedora user
and I run Fedora on about 10 servers right now, including this one that
hosts Dvorak Uncensored. But even though I’m a fan I think that it’s
time to end the intellectual welfare that all the Linux reviewers give
it and raise the bar to the same standards that commercial software is
judged by. What is that standard you ask? It’s the standard of “does it
work”. My conclusion - no - it doesn’t. Fedora 8 is broken."

It seems like a rant more than anything from my point of view. Some
valid points but overall a rant.

http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453

http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Dvorak_Uncensored_Fedora_8_Sucks

Cheers

Marc

    

Parts of the 'review' are not very credible:

"Being an expert, I (...)

(...) Since I had a 1280×1024 screen, I wanted to see it in the
resolution that the screen supports. So I ran the display configuration
and set the Monitor to Samsung 712n which was on their list. (...) 

After selecting the correct monitor, I returned to select the resolution
and even though I had selected a 1280×1024 monitor I still couldn’t
(...)

I could have started trying to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but
decided f*ck it. Why should I spend several more hours on Fedora 8 just
trying to get it to work with a standard size screen? I have better
things to do. (...) "

Excuse me, is editing xorg.conf "several more hours" of work, and for an
"expert" at that?


  
Lets pretend for a second he said instead he was an old granny, there's no excuse as to why someone should need to edit the xorg.conf, the system-display-conf is there for a reason. If it didn't work as intended, his point is perfectly valid.
(Though it shouldn't take him more than a pair of minutes to tweak a string... ;) )

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