Re: Rawhide / Fedora rant

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Ouch. Did it  again.  This was not supposed to go to this list.  Sorry 
everyone :(.

behdad

On 06/23/2009 05:50 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> I'm sure this is nothing new for anyone here, but thought reminding
> people why it's a pain to develop for Fedora may help. When I updated my
> laptop couple days ago:
>
> - Audio stopped working (again). Looks like kernel issue (again). Used
> to work last week.
>
> - X stopped starting. Removing xorg-x11-drv-ati helps, but then there's
> artifacts on the screen, and I guess it also causes the next issue.
> arlied says everything should be fixed now, but it's still not in rawhide.
>
> - Firefox stopped starting. Crashes now with glibc detected buffer
> overflow.
>
>
> Some longer-term issues:
>
> - Cannot import photos from my Canon Rebel XSi camera. gvfs-gdu-volume
> segfaults. Used to work with F10.
>
> - Cannot edit audio. Hard to find a version of audacity in Fedora or
> RPMFusion that can open *any* file I want to edit.
>
> - Cannot meaningfully edit video. Don't even say "Pitivi". So far
> mencoder and vim have been the way to go.
>
> Couldn't do more to get in the way of my "creative" activities.
>
> Cheers,
> behdad