On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:26:01AM -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:33 AM, Peter Gordon peter@thecodergeek.com wrote:
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 00:05 -0500, Jerry Amundson wrote:
Au contraire, mon ami. [On the contrary, my friend.] "Beta and pre-releases in general" (rawhide as we know it) is no more than a "Add/Remove Software" (Package Manager) Edit->Repositories, checkbox "development" away from my 93-year old, computer illiterate, cannot setup-his-way-out-of-a-vcr-remote grandfather adding complete crap packages on his desktop, you might reconsider that statement.
And you would grant that level of root-password-required access to such a person...why, exactly? :)
Heh. Good point!
In general, code quality in open source software currently SUCKS.
We are all human. From that, errors are inherent to and unavoidable in anything we - as a society or as individuals - produce: including code.
I understand that, but it's the recent quantity of the lack-of-quality that worries me.
However, one of F/OSS's many benefits is the great number of people perusing and (hopefully) quickly improving upon that as time passes.
Several days of having an extra large paper weight on my desk due to broken e1000e,
That kind of problem happens very rarely and - as you can read in the news - it's being worked on by both Intel and kernel developers.
ati,
AMD has released a lot of documentation and work on radeon/radeonhd drivers is progressing nicely. Radeonhd works fine for me. If fglrx doesn't work for you, we can't do anything about it. Ask AMD for support.
Regards, R.