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Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)Posted Nov 8, 2006 23:46 UTC (Wed) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) by davej Parent article: Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review)
Um, doesn't the two month delay to shore up nvidia/ATI problems count as "grabbing your ankles"?
http://lwn.net/Articles/195351/
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Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:27 UTC (Thu) by ofeeley (subscriber, #36105) [Link] Not entirely. As someone that was irked by the presentation of this and would rather that it had been handled otherwise there was a definite reluctance by the Fedora Board to simply prostitute the distribution to the whims of proprietary hardware purchasers and the Board was divided on the issue. The statement issued on whether or not an update of the Xorg packages was warranted clearly noted that there was a balance between slightly increased functionality for Free Software users versus avoiding breakage for those unlucky enough to be saddled with proprietary hardware.
I think that the discussion around this issue showed that the Fedora community and its representatives on the Fedora Board are doing anything but bending over in the way that the short-sighted reviewer would like. I'd like to add my thanks to DaveJ and others for having the clarity of thought to resist the impulse to go the Ubuntu root.
Fedora Core 6 review (Software In Review) Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:28 UTC (Thu) by davej (guest, #354) [Link] ATI/Nvidia problems was never a reason for slipping.The delays in getting FC6 out were completely unrelated. (Largely due to Xen)
Fedora Core not bending to proprietary drivers Posted Nov 9, 2006 13:38 UTC (Thu) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link] That's not what the poster meant: Xorg 7.1 was released back in May and did not appear in FC until months later (September?), because proprietary drivers from ATI and nVidia were not ready for it.
Fedora Core not bending to proprietary drivers Posted Nov 9, 2006 19:28 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] But there was no delay: the very next major Fedora release had 7.1.The only thing Fedora chose not to do was to upgrade the Xorg in the already shipping Fedora release, and I think that this was the right decision.
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