"Fedora 8 came out today and quite frankly, it sucks. I’m a Fedora user and I run Fedora on about 10 servers right now, including this one that hosts Dvorak Uncensored. But even though I’m a fan I think that it’s time to end the intellectual welfare that all the Linux reviewers give it and raise the bar to the same standards that commercial software is judged by. What is that standard you ask? It’s the standard of “does it work”. My conclusion - no - it doesn’t. Fedora 8 is broken." It seems like a rant more than anything from my point of view. Some valid points but overall a rant. http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453 http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Dvorak_Uncensored_Fedora_8_Sucks Cheers Marc

hymno wrote: > Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 09:00 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Marc > Wiriadisastra: > > > "Fedora 8 came out today and quite frankly, it sucks. I’m a Fedora user > > and I run Fedora on about 10 servers right now, including this one that > > hosts Dvorak Uncensored. But even though I’m a fan I think that it’s > > time to end the intellectual welfare that all the Linux reviewers give > > it and raise the bar to the same standards that commercial software is > > judged by. What is that standard you ask? It’s the standard of “does it > > work”. My conclusion - no - it doesn’t. Fedora 8 is broken." > > > > It seems like a rant more than anything from my point of view. Some > > valid points but overall a rant. > > > > http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453 > > > > http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Dvorak_Uncensored_Fedora_8_Sucks > > > > Cheers > > > > Marc > > > > > > Parts of the 'review' are not very credible: > > "Being an expert, I (...) > > (...) Since I had a 1280×1024 screen, I wanted to see it in the > resolution that the screen supports. So I ran the display configuration > and set the Monitor to Samsung 712n which was on their list. (...) > > After selecting the correct monitor, I returned to select the resolution > and even though I had selected a 1280×1024 monitor I still couldn’t > (...) > > I could have started trying to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but > decided f*ck it. Why should I spend several more hours on Fedora 8 just > trying to get it to work with a standard size screen? I have better > things to do. (...) " > > Excuse me, is editing xorg.conf "several more hours" of work, and for an > "expert" at that? > > > Lets pretend for a second he said instead he was an old granny, there's no excuse as to why someone should need to edit the xorg.conf, the system-display-conf is there for a reason. If it didn't work as intended, his point is perfectly valid. (Though it shouldn't take him more than a pair of minutes to tweak a string... ;) )