On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 00:05 -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote: >> Au contraire, mon ami. [On the contrary, my friend.] >> "Beta and pre-releases in general" (rawhide as we know it) is no more than a >> "Add/Remove Software" (Package Manager) >> Edit->Repositories, checkbox "development" away from my 93-year old, >> computer illiterate, cannot setup-his-way-out-of-a-vcr-remote >> grandfather adding complete crap packages on his desktop, you might >> reconsider that statement. > > And you would grant that level of root-password-required access to such > a person...why, exactly? :) Heh. Good point! >> In general, code quality in open source software currently SUCKS. > > We are all human. From that, errors are inherent to and unavoidable in > anything we - as a society or as individuals - produce: including code. I understand that, but it's the recent quantity of the lack-of-quality that worries me. > However, one of F/OSS's many benefits is the great number of people > perusing and (hopefully) quickly improving upon that as time passes. Several days of having an extra large paper weight on my desk due to broken e1000e, ati, insert-your-driver-here... Well, ok, I'll remain optimistic! Fortunately, I thought ahead enough to setup multi-boot with f9 ... jerry -- There's plenty of youth in America - it's time we find the "fountain of smart". -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
