Hello,
> > Even in a beta release I think a bug of this magnitude is not
> > acceptable
Well, betas are meant to help find bugs, we are all people
(although on the internet you never know :-)) and make mistakes.
Hopefully the quality control team learns from this.
> > RedHat says it does not see a future for Linux in the desktop
>
> That's not what we are saying, but our focus is for servers - this is
> where we have a fighting chance of exceeding MS right now (and
> actually do, according to SPECWEB).
Do you speak for Red Hat here or is this your personal
opinion?
I personally thought that Red Hat is the company with
the strongest potential to bring the Linux "to the masses",
i.e. also to desktop users. If your top priority is chasing
performance to beat MS in some server benchmark results,
this is a bad news for me and (I am sure) for many other
users too.
Although the performance argument is relevant, the quality
and stability is a must. If something does not change,
we will lose these arguments for Linux advocacy - although
the kernel is reasonable stable, without a stable desktop,
with Web browser crashing on every tenth page and (last
but not least) with a history of crashing and buggy installers
you are going to lose potential customers much faster
compared to stable and easy to use system with a web
server 20% less performant as MS one.
> > or the fact that at the end of install the guy who wants
> > to serve web pages gets a ready to use machine while
> > the guy who wants to use Staroffice ends the install
> > with an unconfigured printer subsystem.
>
> You want all config tools to be run during initial setup?
The majority of users wants to end with all hardware configured
and accessible. Whether this is done in the initial setup
or something pops up after the first login or you are
expected to start something manually is quite irrelevant,
but if you want to print something two weeks after
an instalation, it simply does not work and you have
no idea why, this is bad.
I am a "power user" and like to configure and fix things
using vi and not the panels :-), but I routinely talk
to some experienced computer users (NT and/or other brands
of Unix) installing Linux for the first time and they
value the easiness of an installation _very_ high.
Regards
--
Stano
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