Is there any concensus out there about when Fedora will work out its problems and be ready for prime time?
If someone doesn't understand the question, then consider the following:
1. With the latest Fedora 17, Beefy Miracle, installed, the installation routine creates a a GRUB2 that has an error in the file, as flashed on the screen for a split second at every boot.
2. During the boot process it can't find a font file.
3. During the boot process it can't find LSB.
4. There is no way to control the display resolution at the various stages of the boot process.
5. Somewhere along the line, root acess is lost. One cannot match root with the password chosen during install, so the user can no longer boot to root at login.
6. There are no useful utilities to discover and configure hardware.
7. The failure to stick with simple ALSA audio has confused the environment and the user, and has given nothing but lousy overdriven sound.
At the end of the day, the user just needs a stable system that doesn't break when applications are installed or removed, and a simple way to recover it it does. If needing a way to roll-back configuration because of a lack of compatibility stabilization, then that needs to be set up during install, ala Windows.
Even the recovery method used by the install disk allows no selection of programs to re-install. In fact, it only looks at some unknown list of files to determine if a reinstall is necessary, leaving a broken system unrepaired.
And the GRUB menu is no better. While it can offer a command prompt, if one looks hard enough, it fails to activate the network, making repository access impossible.
What is so surprising is that the failures are so obvious, and especially in light of the fact that the supporting company is so well respected for its technical expertise and leadership.
I will also add that the wiki is equally useless.
While everyone appreciates unpaid labors of love, the real problem is that untold man-hours are lost on the wrong programming.
Does anyone thing they'll ever get it.
Thanks.
If someone doesn't understand the question, then consider the following:
1. With the latest Fedora 17, Beefy Miracle, installed, the installation routine creates a a GRUB2 that has an error in the file, as flashed on the screen for a split second at every boot.
2. During the boot process it can't find a font file.
3. During the boot process it can't find LSB.
4. There is no way to control the display resolution at the various stages of the boot process.
5. Somewhere along the line, root acess is lost. One cannot match root with the password chosen during install, so the user can no longer boot to root at login.
6. There are no useful utilities to discover and configure hardware.
7. The failure to stick with simple ALSA audio has confused the environment and the user, and has given nothing but lousy overdriven sound.
At the end of the day, the user just needs a stable system that doesn't break when applications are installed or removed, and a simple way to recover it it does. If needing a way to roll-back configuration because of a lack of compatibility stabilization, then that needs to be set up during install, ala Windows.
Even the recovery method used by the install disk allows no selection of programs to re-install. In fact, it only looks at some unknown list of files to determine if a reinstall is necessary, leaving a broken system unrepaired.
And the GRUB menu is no better. While it can offer a command prompt, if one looks hard enough, it fails to activate the network, making repository access impossible.
What is so surprising is that the failures are so obvious, and especially in light of the fact that the supporting company is so well respected for its technical expertise and leadership.
I will also add that the wiki is equally useless.
While everyone appreciates unpaid labors of love, the real problem is that untold man-hours are lost on the wrong programming.
Does anyone thing they'll ever get it.
Thanks.