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OSNews Rates Fedora Core 1 Mild Disappointment

Posted by simoniker on from the slightly-crumpled dept.

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."

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  1. Re:They've gone elsewhere by RevDobbs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Funny, my girlfriend also rated me as a "Mild Disappointment". I too, cited a lack QA testing, but she just wasn't hearing it.

    The community of dedicated bug reporters/developers has largely shifted to Debian.

    Man... if only I could find a whole community of QA testers...

  2. Re:Usability Issues by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You couldn't get anything to work right with linux, and yet you like Nethack? Thats insane. Linux is much easier to figure out than nethack.

  3. Purple Hat by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know, I think a feathered purple pimp fedora would be better suited for this distro rather than the Red Hat.

    See, Fedora is pimped out with all the latest stuff... but underneath the covers the system is cheap and sleazy.

    I tried updating my RH9 with Fedora, and it totally trashed Mozilla. I go type in something in the URL... and Mozilla vanished!

    --
    READY.
    PRINT ""+-0
  4. Re:What a shock by chgros · · Score: 2, Funny

    This was supposed to be a distribution review, and yet the first thing that the reviewer did was circumvent the included packaging system. Fedora uses yum by default, not apt-get and synaptic.
    cirumvent? Fire up the DMCA!