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Fedora Core 2 Dud or Dodo?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the something-to-think-about dept.

darth_silliarse writes "Linux.com have posted an interesting review Fedora Core 2, which includes reference to the now famous Windows/Fedora Core 2 dual booting "feature". My favorite quote "Unfortunately, all of FC2's admirable qualities cannot save it from its congenital defects. These range from annoyances such as broken audio drivers to the abomination known as Gnome 2.6, and are serious enough to make the Fedora Project's second litter of pups unsuitable for any use other than as laboratory animals." Quite a indictment don't you think? My fav distro is SuSE but I'm interested to hear others views about this review..."

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  1. This is silly. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is silly. FC2 works fine.

  2. CmdrTaco bites the hand that feeds him? by stock · · Score: 0, Troll

    If even his CmdrTaco-nes squeezes the thumb screws on RedHat's community effort, Fedora,
    then something must be going on. Or even worse essential efforts are not happening at Fedora's.
    Lets find out, i would say.

    Robert

  3. Re:dual boot bug is not that big of a deal by Bilestoad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Learn it from Windows XP also. Same thing. It's only Linux distributions that can't get it together to make the install experience as trouble-free as the commercial OS vendors. This despite the fact that they release far more often and should be able to cover newer devices where Mac OS and Windows XP don't.

    This is the case because nobody wants to make that hardware database happen. Nobody cares about it because they think that if "lusers" can't work it out then they're not good enough to be running Linux. There is no project manager identifying the problems and assigning resources to make it happen. And yet there's still this idea that Linux will one day surpass Windows in terms of user base on the desktop...