[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Dennis Rice]

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I am becoming outdated in the concept of quality, because the world that 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