[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Leroy Tennison]

On 01/07/2010 03:52 PM, Dennis Rice wrote:
> I have been reading all of the comments to my original message, and they 
> seem to be bouncing all over the place as to my willingness to respond 
> to the bug to being willing to do more or being totally frustrated.
> 
> I just learned from directly from another reader that was willing to 
> respond back to me directly that the rawhide repository for for 
> developers.  That was new news to me.  I do not recall if I ever set a 
> configuration for rawhide; OK, lets assume that I made an error there.  
> To that individual I am very thankful, he did not ignore or treat me as 
> someone that did not know what they were doing.  He offered help and 
> guidance.
> 
> The fact that when the beta versions were installed on my system, they 
> then ended up corrupting the earlier releases.  Reversion 13 first 
> killed the print driver for both it and 12.  The last update killed the 
> ability to read an NTFS hard drive (USB interface).  If it does that in 
> a beta release, then it is obvious that those writing the code have not 
> performed a minimum test of their software before issuing it.
> 
> I was a strong discussion regarding Red Hat.  In my original message I 
> did not mention Red Hat, I consider it to be far better than Fedora when 
> it comes to new releases, being much more stable (but I acknowledge that 
> they have problems too, but not to this extent).
> 
> It is one thing to put out a release that does not work well, it sucks 
> when it corrupts an older version.  I stated in my original note that I 
> am not a programmer or developer.  Obviously some think that in order to 
> use Fedora that one must be.  I like Fedora for what it does, not for 
> what it did in this case.  I can not accept that Fedora would put out on 
> the street a distro that is so flawed.
> 
> I see the world deteriorating in terms of quality of service.  Obviously 
> I am becoming outdated in the concept of quality, because the world that 
> I have worked in for the last 40 years required that past equipment work 
> with present technology.
> 
> Dennis
> 
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You want:

1) past equipment to work with current technology - no money in that!
2) Customer service!?  You're really out of touch, it's all about cheap!

:-) :-) :-)