[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Dennis Rice]

In Fedora's desire to be on the bleeding edge and only support those 
that wish to be developers, I am dropping it.

I did an upgrade and it has FAILED!  What is worse, the previous 
revisions have also been corrupted.

I have a HP Compaq 8710p with three kernels presently installed,
1.   vmlinuz-2.6.31.1-56.fc12.i686.PAE
2.   vmlinuz2.6.32-0.65.rc8.git5.fc13.i686.PAE
3.   vmlinuz.2.6.32.2-15.fc13.i686.PAE

On upgrading to fc11 and doing an upgrading to 12, 11 was made unusable, 
failing at the GRUB.  Fortunately 12 did work.  Later a I did another 
update and 13 Beta was installed (#1 above).  This worked generally ok 
but the connection to my HP network connected (Jetconnect) failed.  
Unfortunately at the same time the printer connection for 12, which 
previously worked now failed.  This last week I performed another update 
and the update to fc13 was installed and 11 was deleted.  Now both 12 
and both versions of 13 work to a very limited extent.  All three 
versions freeze up and the only thing that moves on the screen is the 
mouse cursser.  The only way I can shut down the system is to do a 
physical power off.  Applications work for a while and the lock.  Open 
Office and Firefox have been made unsuable over any extend period of time.

I do not wish to be part of the bug reporting process because to me, as 
just an end user, it is too complex of a process.  I am not a programmer 
or developer, just a basic user that likes the power of freedom of 
Linux.  My discuss with Fedora is not allowed to be written down.  I am 
hopeful that someone on the Fedora team is able to read this and learn 
that they are orienting the OS to a select group of users and thus 
cutting off many other users.  If they want the mass user base to keep 
using their OS, then they need to make it usable and issue a quality 
product.  I did not request the upgrade to 13, it was forced upon me and 
from that point on the quality of the system deteriorated.  I will now 
be switching to another distribution.

Dennis Rice