Fedora Remix OS testing strategy

Hello,

I think you will probably be lucky to get answers to all your questions, but you could enrol for the Webinar in April by Eben Upton and see if you can get answers to your questions, or at least some of them, there?

I wouldn't risk directing you to the foundation's forum, because I think you may end up with a swift ban asking questions like that

I suspect that in time everything will get ironed out and hopefully with Farnell and RS on board, industry standard testing will be performed. I think the lack of paid staff, as you have already hinted it, has caused things to go a little wrong in places, as there simply isn't enough people to go around.

Are you suggesting that the foundation's forum swiftly bans people who ask

reasonable questions regarding the preferred OS?  Or are you suggesting

that these are unreasonable questions?

I think you are completely missing the point of this project.

Whatever OS you may or may not decide to run on it, the responsibility for testing it and making do what you want is yours.

The hardware is for sale, not the software. As such, you are going to get exactly what you are paying for....

Seriously, if you are not happy to be doing a LOT of work for yourself, is this a product that you should be investing in?

If Farnell has no responsibility for the performance of the OS,

then why did they recall it?

Why would you think that Farnell has ANY responsibility for the OS? Have they claimed to anywhere?

All they were doing was, out of the kindness of their hearts, making it available if people wanted to grab it.

What they HAVE done is to say that there seem to be issues with it, so they are not going to facilitate its use for the time being.

It's still available for anyone who wants to experiment and work with it from the Raspberry Pi website, as well as from the originators at Seneca.

Farnell have no power to "recall" it. It's not their product....

I think Farnell has Fedora OS responsibilities because they are providing that OS for

download as the recommended OS to use with the hardware they are selling. 

If the OS that customers download from the Farnell site doesn't work well with the

hardware that Farnell is selling, I expect Farnell will be the ones handling the complaints. 

That is presumably why they sent the OS back to Seneca for rework.

mate, I think you got the idea of this project all wrong. If all you wanna do is get the board and just load a pre-compiled OS onto it and have enerything served on a plate, then this might not be the right tool for you.

I'm guessing you have had no previous experience with free/open source software. Otherwise you would know that the software is made available to you without any warranty you decide to use it under your own responsability.

Element14 is selling the hardware and that is all there is. If someone compiles a bundle of software for the Raspberry Pi and makes it available under a Free/open source licence then he nor the foundation nor farnell have any responsability.

you might be better served if you ask IBM, Oracle or Microsoft for a subscription/paid licence based OS for your Raspberry Pi.

What you are suggesting coder27 is similar to complaining to Microsoft about a problem in XBMC

The Raspi has a number of Linux OSs available primarily to run the Scratch development environment but all are free.

As has been suggested in the many threads you have started - Raspi is probably not for you unless you are happy to follow what has been suggested and read up on the project's goals.