Op vrijdag 09-11-2007 om 18:29 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Juan M. Rodriguez: > 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... ;) ) Point taken, but frankly, "old grannies" are not supposed to need to install an operating system. Most people never will. I've installed Fedora and CentOS for a couple of people that are now happily using it, but it would have scared the hell out of them if they had to *install and configure* the OS by themselves, even if it turned out to be not that hard after the fact. Also, adding some repositories and w32/dvd codecs and the like was just not something they were going to do. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
