This conversation started with steve using a test version of FC4. FC4 is not released yet because guess what, it is being tested.
Steve, you put yourself in the position of a tester, i hope you reflected back to the FC4 crew that it didn't work. Thats the only way it will get fixed. BTW firefox 1.0.3 works fine here on windows. and marked stable on gentoo/x86 on 16 April. On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:23:09 +1200 Christopher Sawtell wrote: > If your need is for that level of QA you should be purchasing the RHEL. > > > As for who can work on a F/LOSS project, that doesn't remove the > > maintainers responsibility to manage the project! Yes, anybody can work on > > the project, and submit stuff for release, but their work should never be > > released to the public before being tested, in some way, shape or form. > > That's why the distributions offer testing, unstable, and stable levels. > The public do the testing at the testing and unstable levels. Fedora is, and > always has been, at the testing to unstable level. > > You might well find one of the BSD releases more to your liking, because they > all purport to offer much tighter control by the "Central Command" of the > organization. > > I read pontifications by some pundit or other linked off /. yesterday. He > recconed that Debian and the other Community Linux distributions are of a > higher level of quality that the Commercial ones. With that I agree. Notice > also that Munich has plumped for Debian. > > -- > C. S. -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
