On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:26:01AM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote: > 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, That kind of problem happens very rarely and - as you can read in the news - it's being worked on by both Intel and kernel developers. > ati, AMD has released a lot of documentation and work on radeon/radeonhd drivers is progressing nicely. Radeonhd works fine for me. If fglrx doesn't work for you, we can't do anything about it. Ask AMD for support. Regards, R. -- Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <rathann*at*icm.edu.pl> | LAN Staff Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling Warsaw University | http://www.icm.edu.pl | tel. +48 (22) 5540810 -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
