Updated to Fedora 10
Yesterday night, at the moment rTorrent finished downloading the Fedora 10 ISO image, I rushed to burn it to a DVD and perform a clean installation of the operating system. No, I was not that excited about the new features of F10. I just wanted to replace what had been the buggiest desktop I had ever used, GNOME 2.22. All I hope for, as far as software is concerned, is that the 2.24.1 version -included in F10- has less bugs. Please, do not get me wrong. I highly respect the hard work and effort of all GNOME and Fedora contributors. It’s just their decision to release unfinished and therefore unreliable software as stable for the sake of the 6-month release-cycle-madness I criticize! Of course, the same goes for Ubuntu. Lately, I’ve been thinking about trying to use CentOS as a desktop operating system. The software it contains might be a bit outdated, but at least it will help me preserve my sanity.
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November 27th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
Which bugs do you refer to?
November 27th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Hi Simos, although such discussions are pointless, I will name a few of them just to support my posting above: At first it was the open/save dialogs that froze randomly during the first weeks, the recycle bin was completely unreliable about if it contained data or not from day 1 until I upgraded to F10, there was a considerable possibility that file operations would freeze when copying/moving/deleting many files at once in nautilus (fortunately it hasn’t happened the last couple of months), evolution’s task/calendar features froze at will (just about every time I used it). Now, if we add the number of times i manually restarted the highly advertised feature of F9, pulseaudio, the choppy sound in several popular applications (see skype) and some other issues with the most popular graphics cards, which fortunately did not affect me for long, I can say that Fedora 9 was an experience!
My point is that software with so obvious stability and usability issues should not be released and advertised as stable.