hymno wrote: > Op zaterdag 10-11-2007 om 09:00 uur [tijdzone +0900], schreef Marc > Wiriadisastra: > >> "Fedora 8 came out today and quite frankly, it sucks. I’m a Fedora user >> and I run Fedora on about 10 servers right now, including this one that >> hosts Dvorak Uncensored. But even though I’m a fan I think that it’s >> time to end the intellectual welfare that all the Linux reviewers give >> it and raise the bar to the same standards that commercial software is >> judged by. What is that standard you ask? It’s the standard of “does it >> work”. My conclusion - no - it doesn’t. Fedora 8 is broken." >> >> It seems like a rant more than anything from my point of view. Some >> valid points but overall a rant. >> >> http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=14453 >> >> http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/Dvorak_Uncensored_Fedora_8_Sucks >> >> Cheers >> >> Marc >> >> > > Parts of the 'review' are not very credible: > > "Being an expert, I (...) > > (...) Since I had a 1280×1024 screen, I wanted to see it in the > resolution that the screen supports. So I ran the display configuration > and set the Monitor to Samsung 712n which was on their list. (...) > > After selecting the correct monitor, I returned to select the resolution > and even though I had selected a 1280×1024 monitor I still couldn’t > (...) > > I could have started trying to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file but > decided f*ck it. Why should I spend several more hours on Fedora 8 just > trying to get it to work with a standard size screen? I have better > things to do. (...) " > > Excuse me, is editing xorg.conf "several more hours" of work, and for an > "expert" at that? > > > Lets pretend for a second he said instead he was an old granny, there's no excuse as to why someone should need to edit the xorg.conf, the system-display-conf is there for a reason. If it didn't work as intended, his point is perfectly valid. (Though it shouldn't take him more than a pair of minutes to tweak a string... ;) )
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