> As to your rhetorical question of how could FC2 be releases with some > many show stopping issues... > > The simple answers are: > (1) it's open source [what do you want for nothing???] > (2) it has to run on N platforms, where N >> 1 > (3) statistically, the percentage of problems within a 1400+ package > release is rather small. > (4) How many testers do you need to exhaustively test 1400+ packages?
#3 and 4 is the problem. The kitchen sink philosophy of building operating systems is a failure -- Windows is a pitiful OS, and, when you look at what are the rising stars in the OSS *nix world, it seems that the distros that eschew the kitchen sink in favour of a simple tap and wash bucket make up a disproportionately large portion of the heavens. Although I like YDL, I do have to admit that I was quite taken aback by the clutter that I found in the menus in YDL 4 when I recently experimented with it (after having not used YDL as a desktop machine for quite some time... it's my server OS). I do like the direction that GNOME 2.9 is going -- it seems there's a push to simplify things (long overdue IMNSHO), although, that might simply be the design philosophy of the over-lying distro. Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
