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Initial Reactions to Fedora Core 5

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the always-seem-to-have-a-long-road-ahead dept.

Ki writes to tell us that he has put up a short review of Fedora Core 5 which covers the install and general first impressions to the new release. The author highlights several quirks in the installation and a few problems getting down to business, but overall the Fedora team seems to have made some very good progress.

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  1. STOP MAKING EXCUSES by c_spencer100 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Is it me, or do members of the OSS Community (that I'm proudly a part of) always seem to make excuses for our software shortcommings?

    Umm, didn't you notice that Fedora is the development testbed? It's supposed to update quickly so new things get tested before RedHat gives them to paying customers. If you're doing real work on Fedora, I feel your pain.

    An enormous amount of work has gone into it, and it is being given away for free.

    That is the biggest pile of crap I've ever heard. Fedora having yet another rushed release has nothing to do with it being a "test bed". That's not a testing point, that's a half-assed release. The moment you have an "official" release, you are accountable, regardless of price. The fact of the matter is, if you intend to release a product that is crap, then why bother in the first place? If Microsoft did the same thing we'd bash them until we got corporal tunnel syndrome. The current release of SuSE has had 4 alpha, and 8 beta releases, just so they can give it away for free. The funny thing is, they're not even the richest most profitable Linux company arround - RedHat is.

    I'm all for companies making money, but how are they doing this for free, when they're eventually going to sell the bug tested product? You got it backwards - we're doing this for free, "this" being the product testing that companies ususally pay people for.