I am using FC3 because I needed KDE3.3 for a package I had to build. (kdevelop.) I knew that someone was going to reply with a "if you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen". That is the wrong answer ! I didn't say I couldn't take the heat. I just fixed my CDROM issue. The problem is that when we release software with these issues in it, we give Linux a black eye. How many reporters are going to test FC3 and write a column that says "CDROM didn't work, sound didn't work." OS software is inferior. ?????? Journalists have no patience and they aren't technical and they inform a lot of common joe users. The suggestion about running FC2 is invalid as well. FC2 was released with bugs and they are still in the distro. For example: it was shipped with an issue in disk druid that would wreck dual booting with XP. There is a work around, but the point is that the Fedora Core released it in the first place. An FC2.1 release covering a few of these issues would make the world of difference. BTW: If you don't run FC, what are you supposed to run ? I don't like SUSE with its yast stuff. I am not going to run debian. RH8,9 and FC1 are abandoned. About the only other mainstream Linux is Mandrake. I like the way RH does things, so I run FC3. I am an advanced user, but what about joe average user ? Maybe that is what whitebox Linux is for. On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 16:48 +0000, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Kim Lux wrote: > > > However, I think there should be sub releases in between releases that > > do nothing but make the previous release perfect. > > Nothing like setting your goals high... > > Fedora isn't supposed to be making a perfectly stable safe distro. It aims to > be a little bit more "out there". Non-Objective #1 sums it up nicely. > > If you want to complain about FC3 being buggy, don't use it. FC2 is still > being supported, so why are you running the absolute bleeding edge? > > jh > > -- > "My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you > become a monk, you'll end up as the pope." Instead, I became a painter, and > wound up Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso > -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc