Linked by Christian Paratschek on Tue 23rd Nov 2004 07:56 UTC
For this article, I chose to take a slightly different approach than the standard "Linux distribution review". As I have written not just one, but two reviews of Fedora Core 2 for this site, I want to base my review of Fedora Core 3 on my experiences with its direct predecessor. Update: FC3 shots here.
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"I have had several crashes of FireFox 1.0 Final.
It crashes more than IE ever did, so much for ALL
the EYES in open sources."
Perhaps it needs your eyes. Have you sent a bug report?
"FIX THE CRASHING IN FIREFOX, come on where are ALL
the EYES looking at the CODE?????
This is the whole problem, OpenSource is too arrogant
to fix REAL problems."
The real problem in this case is that you seam to be the only one with serious problems. To most people Mozilla behaves quite nicely.
In open source just like in closed source problems that happens to many people, or pose serious security problems have a tendency to get fixed first. The difference is that in open source, impatient people with programming skills have a chance to do it themselves to the benefit of the community.
This is no more arrogant than Microsoft or Sun denying their paying customers timely fixes to serious security problems, sometimes for months.