Re: fedora gets poor reviews

[Jorge Boscán Etura <joretur@xxxxxxxxxx>]

One of the bugs that I found unaceptable to find in fedora core 1 is "ye
olde" rpm bug(since rh8), of course it can be fixed by the user but why?

El jue, 13 de 11 de 2003 a las 10:29, Brian Johnson escribiÃ:
> Perhaps another article comparing Fedora to Redhat 9 would be a better goal for this
> list rather than this one that may have had a similar tone if Redhat 9 was being
> reviewed
> 
> I think many agree that Redhat has made significant improvements in the user
> friendliness of the gui but I am not one to say that there still isn't room for
> improvement.
> 
> Simple desktop task criteria such as printing still need uniformity (may be finally
> on the way with CUPS but still is not used by some programs).  Other more minor
> things/annoyances like saving window states on logout, taskbar icons for IM clients
> and such still need a uniformity to their operation
> 
> Please don't try to explain the reasons for these problems to me, I understand them,
> I'm referring to a desktop user who is just not interested in why or how something
> works or not, they just expect it to work and criticise it if it doesn't.  We may
> not like it but that is the way it is.
> 
> I tend to agree that reviews of reviews need not question the person's intelligence
> or experience.  Those criteria only influence what the article means, not it's
> validity.  Yes I know there are errors, but have you ever looked into the time
> frames these reporters are given to write reviews?  This may have been a one day
> assignment (which would be difficult for a proper article even for a linux guru)
> 
> Could I be so bold as to suggest that other reviews will be written, and a wise move
> would be to consult a few in order to form a balanced opinion.  Also, I think all
> experienced linux people expected some bumps in this change, so is not exactly a
> surprise that there might be some problems
> 
> 
> 
> 
> H M Kunzmann (herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >
> >> This is sad.  No more Redhat Linux, outside of the enterprise version, and
> >> here is the first release of fedora getting poor reviews:
> >> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/12/2323256
> >> Where to turn?
> >
> >There are a lot of comments claiming that the author of the article
> >lacks the ability or intelligence to give the review any credibility.
> >
> >The tasks she had difficulties with seem to have been simple ones, and
> >this you take as evidence that the article is useless.
> >
> >Apart from the Linux hippie intellectual supremacist statements I would
> >normally expect to come rolling in after any form of criticism of the
> >OS, perhaps the point is exactly that she reviewer was struggling with
> >simple things. Fedora targets the market of normal users, while RHEL
> >moves on to capture the big bucks. That means fedora is the Linux that
> >people who aren't whiz kids or back street geniuses with a fetish to
> >tinker on arcane scripts and config files, are gonna use. Redhat has
> >been doing a great job at nailing down the desktop market for the
> >not-so-computer-wise, and the article points out quite clearly that this
> >may have been progress now totally lost.
> >
> >I have not yet tried Fedora, so I don't rightfully know whether she has
> >any significant points, but it is clear to me, that for an average user,
> >things may be a bit problematic.
> >
> >I'm somewhat ashamed to see that the comments posted on this adopt the
> >same approach that MS users do when trying to denounce articles, and the
> >authors of articles, promoting or comparing something open source vs.
> >windows. Instead of shouting "You don't know what you're talking
> >about!", it would be nice to see points countered with intellectual
> >arguments instead of child like-sulking.
> >
> >
> >
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