Likely the case and it cuts two ways. Popularity means more problems when something like this happens and more critics to draw attention to it. The good thing is that open source developers were able to resolve it so quickly. This is a testimony to the power of the community and that the open source collaborative model works. I am sorry for anyone affected, by it but happy that we were able to respond so quickly and prevent further damage. Finger pointing is inevitable. I hope that Intel and kernel developers will work closer in the future as a result.
Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 3, 2008 9:37:04 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] e1000e ethernet bug fixed On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 06:10:29PM -0700, Linux Canuck wrote: > Reading the article you will find that Ubuntu Intrepid was not the only > pre-release affected. So was Mandriva 2009, Fedora 10, Suse 11 and more were > affected, but it seems that Intrepid got all of the bad press. Anyway this > shows how quickly open source can respond. > Yes, and SuSE also had various easily found mentions of it. Fedora also had mention of it somewhere--never found it on their site, but it was mentioned on the mailing lists. In Fedora's case, I doubt it was any effort to hide it, simply their usual lack of documentation. I hadn't gotten the impression that Ubuntu was getting the bad press about it, but then again, not having the card, I wasn't paying that much attention either. If so, it's probably simply another indication of their popularity. There are so many Ubuntu users that more of them were probably affected than were other distributions. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Colonel: Every inch of this installation is under constant, 24-hour surveillance. Willow: Including the secret lab? Colonel: Everything! (pause) What secret lab? __________________________________________________________________ Instant Messaging, free SMS, sharing photos and more... Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger at http://ca.beta.messenger.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
