On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 21:30 -0400, David McCormick wrote: > I don't think you understood what I was saying. In the rest of the > message which you sniped off I stated that this is not a problem to me. > I just would like to see an out of the box usable Linux system to supply > to people like my son in law that they could use without major knowledge > of computer system administration. While you and I aren't put off by > it , there are a lot of people who could and would like to use Linux who > just don't have the desire to get as deeply involved as you and I, and > I would like to have something to offer them. Obviously, you don't offer them *test releases*. We make test releases to find bugs and fix them. This was a bug. It was fixed. The process is therefore working. If you install a final release and still have major problems like this, then a rant is somewhat more justified.