Re: Difference between Debian and other flavours of Linux

At 14:33 24/04/2006, you wrote:

That's fine if that's what you want; distributions like this exist -
CentOS for example. These distributions do, by their very nature, lag
behind the "leading edge". *Someone" has to be at the leading edge in
order for problems to get resolved, and there's a fine line to be drawn
between being too close to that point that the distribution is highly
unstable and difficult to use (perhaps this might apply to rawhide) and
being too far behind the leading edge that people are wanting widely
available new bits of software that aren't deemed stable enough yet to
be included.

Given the popularity of Fedora and the roughly equal numbers of people
clamouring for new releases of KDE/Gnome etc. and complaining about
instability, my gut feel is that the balance is about right.

Paul.

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If I could add my 2 small currency units worth to this, I think Fedora is great, but in my so far very limited experience of submitting reports to bugzilla, fixes are much slower than I was expecting. In fact, so far nothing that I've submitted has yet been fixed.

Take bug number 186766. This was opened on 26th March although the problem is a lot older than this. It has been looked at by Jindrich Novy, who has decided to reassign the bug to a kernel issue. That was five days ago and nothing appears to have happened since. Or perhaps someone is silently working on a fix. I just don't know. It would be nice if the person assigned to the bug could send a progress report even if it were just "I'm working on it" or "It's next in the queue".

Take bug number 178847. This is my first attempt at making a contribution to Fedora Core. As I have tried to make a contribution to the project I feel I have at least some right to make these complaints. The bug is a RFE, opened on 24th January, with the intention of helping new converts from the Dark Side through the first important but confusing it seems stages of installing Fedora for the first time. Three months on, my work is hidden away somewhere in the wiki rather than on public view in the iso downloads folder where it would be of some considerable use.

Now that I've started using FC5, I have of course discovered other faults with it including another USB issue.

So to sum up what I think I want to say about it, the concept of Fedora Core is great, but I really can't recommend it to any of my friends or family who are less experienced computer users than me until I can feel confident that bugs get addressed reasonably promptly, which includes feedback from developers/maintainers to the bug reporter.

Dave F

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