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Revealed: How Fedora And The Community Interact
bakwas_internet writes "Konstantin Ryabitsev sent a funny
message in form of a irc chat log, revealing how Fedora and the Community Interact, to the development discussions mailing list related to Fedora Core.The story also appeared at lwn.net
and OSnews."
Such an uninteresting and unprofessonional story is shocking, even for Slashdot! Is this some kind of joke?
some distros suck more; the paradoxical think is that none of them suck less.
i am probably going to use fedora because it has a stable release schedule. that doesn't mean it sucks any less; but other distros suck more. what it really means that means if someone asks me what i am running i can say "fedora core 2" and that means something. that means if i have issues with some software the guy who got my email reporting whatever bug knows what i've got and can see if my problem can be replicated.
try that on debian. debian has no coherent release schedule, and at this point it's not even clear they are EVER going to have another release: the current "release" has been delayed *years* already, and debian users are quite pleased with that. debian users just incrementally apt-get upgrade "unstable" and claim that is OK.
but try figuring out how to file a bug based on that--what exactly is debian unstable? it's a huge moving target, it really doesn't mean anything, and by the time the guy gets around to looking at my bug it's likely radically different. debian needs to get its shit together and get back to 3-4 month releases. apt-get upgrade is really not the answer. i also like rhat's "best of breed" philosophy versus debians "here have everything" philosophy: i don't want to choose most of the time; and when i DO want to choose i probably know what i'm doing well enough to manually install. so most of the time, i want the distro to choose for me.
so where does that leave me? i've got a rh9 that is end of life and i reall don't want to switch to the debian chaos. i'm hoping to go fedora, but you guys say it sucks. enterprise is no good for my home box, it's not worth paying an "enterprise" license for home.
so, here is a plea: make fedora core not suck more than other distros. i don't need support from redhat for my home system; i do need stable planned releases. and guess what? whatever i use at home is likely going to determine what we pay for at work, so it's not like there isn't a business interest here in making me happy. if i do get forced onto debian at home, it's only a matter of time before i advocate for it at work as well.
You know, that also reminds me of this hilarious picture where you see several persons whose name I can't remember, doing something really funny I don't quite recall. Don't you remember that picture? LOL ROTFLOL that was a funny picture!
Your post was completely useless. No url, no excerp, no nothing, so why did you feel like posting it? what a waste of free speech space...
It's exactly why I hate Debian: it's the politics.
Don't piss off The Angry Economist
With the outsourcing comment, you're making one of two points:
1. People's jobs are being replaced by an object.
2. People's jobs are being moved out to India and similar places.
In response to:
1. Get used to it - it's not new. That's what technology does. That's one of the points of technology: replacing humans. Do you also oppose tractors because they steal jobs from honest hard working farm hands? Do you curse the day the weaving loom or spinning jenny were invented? Surely you shouldn't even be posting using this devlilsh electrons controlling electrons black magick, robbing work from telegram boys.
2. Ah-boo-hoo. What makes you think you have any more right to a job than someone in India?
Malike Bamiyi wanted my assistance.