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Re: Another day, another review

Gareth Russell — Wed, 02 Jun 2004 19:28:12 -0000

Well Microsoft FUD seems to grip people quite well from only one source.

Re: Another day, another review

wahlau — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 07:45:45 -0000

it depends how people would believe in *one* article only...

Re: Another day, another review

Gareth Russell — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 05:39:09 -0000

The review did rather puzzle me. It made FC2 sound completely unusable...

Re: Another day, another review

Link — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:47:04 -0000

I know, I think my kneejerk reaction is starting to wear off. I really respect the Ximian guys too. Its just that these useless articles get under my skin. "If you don't like it, don't use it, but don't complain about it." One of the cool things about open source; there's always an alternative.
I do hope they open up a bit with the development. Everything's happening rather quietly behind the scenes, and the community's left out in the cold wondering what happened to X or Y. A rather curious form of open source development if you ask me. But I come from Debian, where everything is logged on lists.debian.org or bugs.debian.org, for all the world to see, so my viewpoint might be skewed.

Re: Another day, another review

byte — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:34:37 -0000

Well, I'm not about to start a conspiracy theory - a lot of the Novell hackers (the Ximian monkeys) do a great job on GNOME/OOo, and I have immense respect for them. As to why YaST gets a mention, beats me, but Novell will also be using GNOME 2.6 in SuSE 9.1, so really, I doubt they'd be bagging it.

Re: Another day, another review

Link — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:27:29 -0000

Yes, I would expect more. But it does seem extremely suspicious that an article on a site sponsored by Novell makes the same old complaints that we've heard thanks to Mr. Petreley. And on top of that, says YaST is good. What purpose does that article serve other than to get people like me all buggered and get those Linux beginners to think that one distribution is actually better than another?

Re: Another day, another review

byte — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:12:16 -0000

Link, keep in mind that the site, Linux.com is sponsored by Novell. There's nothing saying that Novell wrote/sponsored such an article. You'd just expect more from Linux.com, being owned by a reputable company (OSDN), to actually post a review that makes sense... Not one thats incorrect.

Re: Another day, another review

Link — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 03:00:58 -0000

Its sad that Novell has stooped to marketing articles to undermine other distributions. That's not in the spirit of free software. Remember the days when we used to help out other distributions, and share software and packaging methods. Now its a market, and an industry, and the business people are moving in fast with their fangs bared to suck as much profit as they can out of us. Sorry if this is to emotional but these kinds of articles really piss me off. Hell I don't even use FC2!

Re: Another day, another review

Gareth Russell — Mon, 31 May 2004 14:13:57 -0000

I just posted my positive Fedora Core 2 review on MadPenguin.org

Re: Another day, another review

dopeflish — Mon, 31 May 2004 12:27:52 -0000

Well said! Even worse, the slashdot article that pointed to it seemed to only quote the critical parts of the article. Fedora cora does just work for me, and for many others. :)

Re: Another day, another review

wahlau — Sun, 30 May 2004 20:23:12 -0000

i read this earlier when i was doing my fc1 > fc2 upgrade :) just don't give a damn on it :) it worked perfectly now on my notebook :)