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OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment
JigSaw writes "OSNews has reviewed the Fedora Core 1 Linux distro, but the author personally found lots of usability problems and bugs with the distro, making Fedora Core a trying experience. The writer puts the blame on poor QA of Fedora Core 1 done by its community, since Red Hat has shifted focus to Enterprise, with Fedora serving merely as a testbed for them."
fp jew-lovers!
Having used Fedora (for roughly 3 minutes before fleeing); I must say it is completely unimpressive. Perhaps I haven't kept up with redhat as much as I should have, but I expected it to be a bit more intuitive.
As a slack user I wasn't expecting the world, hell, I wasn't even expecting North America... but I wanted a little more than the Canadian province of Ontario.
Ever since Gnome 2.4 was released, I have found more and more gnome zealots who MUST absolutely advocate GNOME at every possible moment. Here is a guide to some of their claims, and what they really mean.
/gnu/celeron gnu/packard gnu/bell gnu/box.
Unlike KDE, Gnome is free
Translation : GPL is freerer than LGPL. LGPL allows corporations like Novell and Sun to have propeitry forks and lock away their changes from the user. Now that Novell has taken over Ximian you can expect Gnome to get put under corpirate lock. With KDE you have the choice, you either PAY UP or pay with your source code.
Nautilus is much better than konqueror.
Wrong, if your using nautilus for anything more than a simple finder clone you can forget it. No split screen, no ioslaves and forget about being able to have a decent file dialog, not to forget that it is as unstable as hell and is STILL slow on >3 Ghz machines.
Gnome is easier to use
Yep, nothing like using gconf-editor to edit all except the most trivial of settings. Want tear off menus? Want a useable file dialog? You won't find it here.
Gnome has eye candy
Yes, my pirated Win32 fonts with the patent infringing font renderer. Bit stream vera sans looks like Tahoma put through a shreadder! Of course I still reboot into windows to print using "Comic Sans MS.
Gnome has a new web browser
Yawb! Along with Galeon, mozilla, thunderbird, konqueror, atlantis, lynx, netscape and w3m. Yes I need another browser! Not to mention that its got a religiously offensive name and it dosen't allow bookmark folders. It also crashes like a crazy! Apple chose khtml for a REASON! its stable and light!
Gnome is themeable
Yep, choose from High, low and medium contrast, default, and clean ice. Wan't to change the colour scheme? USE GCONF NOOB, plus if you complain about it we will tell you to fuck off and go back to Windows or KDE.
Gnome has multimedia framework
Its a kludge of esd combined with broken xine libraries. No wonder it crashes all the time and dosen't work on 95% of video files
Gnome allows mac like operation.
x86 compatible 1 button mice are almost impossible to find, and it dosen't copy the whole macbar concept. Not to even mention their auto apply implementation is broken and dangerous! Plus if they did actually come anywhere close to copying the Mac the C&D letters would come flying up their asses.
Gnome is GNU software.
gnu/Yay, gnu/gnome gnu/for gnu/my gnu/debian gnu/linux gnu/500mhz
Inspired by the gentoo translate-o-matic.
Shut the fuck up white American bastard. We will get all of you, one by one.
Well, perhaps you need to try Fedora rather than making decision based on half-assed Mac / XP user's review.
.. when will GNOME become usable ?
indeed I agree with you here. I tink that on the long run KDE is the definately winner. Right now it's much more mature than GNOME ever will be. But Eugenia is a fucktwit greece tzazicki stavros suvlaki whore. With her wrong assumings she forces her opinions on others.
Once the "community" grows tired of maintaining the packges (read:Debian) the distro soon falls stagnant.
To paraphrase an old Carlin joke punchline...
"Well why did ya buy a French peice of shit like that for?"
Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
"We don't care why you don't want to switch,"
Bullshit. You guys always make a BFD about some organization switching to Linux, you also complain when Gov'ts choose Windows.
"just like you don't care why it works for us."
Bullshit again. Why would I even give Linux a go in the first place if I wasn't attracted to the benefits ya'all babble on about? It's not because I want to be part of the cool club here at Slashdot.
"That's just great, isn't it? Now go away. "
I will not. I want Linux to be better. I'd like to get away from Microsoft if I can safely make the change. But if the problems that people complain about (i.e. needing updated libraries for newer software) aren't addressed by the community, then how can Linux expand it's userbase?
You can't have it both ways. You can't have a niche little-known OS and then turn around and say "Why are they even using Windows anyway?"
"Derp de derp."
"The reason you don't want to switch is the attitude of others? Or is it you who doesn't want to break from a comfort zone that you have with your current OS.... "
A little bit of both, actually. Part of the problem is that the transition from Windows to Linux is a rough one, and community assistance would be needed. If people are going to act like the problems don't exist, then how do I know I won't be left hanging? Secondly, part of the interest of Linux is "what new stuff will appear tomorrow?" Well, if the community doesn't see the point in supporting 'babies' or 'newbs', then how much of a future can it really have?
Yes, I am comfortable with my OS. It works for me. I don't have stability problems. All my hardware works, and I can go out, buy new hardware and know it works. Software and games are both quite abundant. Windows 2000 has it's drawbacks, nobody's arguing that. However, I would lose some stuff if I went to Linux. The question is, would it be worth it. If all it does is get me into a fight with zealots who expect more of me than they really should, then no it's not worth it at all.
"Derp de derp."