Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 12, 2006 09:42 AM
So let's just accept crappy software and lousy testing.
Sorry - no cigar. That's an excuse, not a reason.
New features should be tested even more than old ones, obviously.
And the "specific configuration" excuse is the same one Red Hat used for their screwup a couple years ago that bombed dual boot systems.
They claimed none of their testers had dual boot machines to test with.
Oh, please. They know damn well that MOST Linux end users have dual boot machines. And they released a partitioner and installer - knowing that the 2.6 kernel had changed disk geometry reporting - without testing it on a dual boot machine.
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Re:They ought to fix it, then.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 12, 2006 09:42 AMSorry - no cigar. That's an excuse, not a reason.
New features should be tested even more than old ones, obviously.
And the "specific configuration" excuse is the same one Red Hat used for their screwup a couple years ago that bombed dual boot systems.
They claimed none of their testers had dual boot machines to test with.
Oh, please. They know damn well that MOST Linux end users have dual boot machines. And they released a partitioner and installer - knowing that the 2.6 kernel had changed disk geometry reporting - without testing it on a dual boot machine.
That's simply laziness. Period.
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