[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Allen Meyers]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> Dennis Rice wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So, in summary, you did an unsupported upgrade between release versions,
> then you did an unsupported upgrade to a beta version, and you're
> surprised it's not working right?
>
> And on top of that, instead of actually doing something constructive
> like file bug reports (which would take about as long as writing this
> rant), you're not going to contribute anything back?
>
> Wow.  Seriously - just "wow."
>
> --
> Thomas
>
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No matter how many bells and whistles development puts into an OS it
is no better then the support offered by the forum. I went into Fedora
with high expectations and dropped it because of its non responsive
attitude to the newbie.
Allen Meyers
Texas.chef94 at gmail.com