Le Vendredi 22 Mars 2002 22:50, Michael Marcucio a �crit : > Personaly I think Stew is doing a great job putting together a great > distrubition, fixing bugs quickly, and offering technical support! It looks > like he is doing the job of three men... Mandrake dosen't have to throw tons > of money at this project to be successful, that just need someone who has > the knowledge, tools, and privilages(access) to put it together. > > I gave my vote(donation) to the ppc port and I hope that anyone that gained > in any way from this project does so also.. > > thanks, > mike
I entirely agree with Mike. The unbelievable fact is that Stew is the one and the only one, if I have well understood (?), to be employed by Mandrakesoft to make the ppc distribution. And that Stew is doing an extraordinary job is a fact that goes without saying. But it is very unreasonable, from a pragmatical point of view, to base the development of such a product on one and only one man. Even if Stew has never asked something - and that is why I have hesitated a lot to write this email - it seems obvious that he needs a colleague, and a colleague as good as Stew is, a problem which is probably difficult twice for Mandrakesoft, but a problem that demands a solution, in my opinion. I like a lot the Mandrake 8.2 ppc already in its beta version, I like it more thant the Mac OS X that I have tried a little, and I would be surprised nobody shares this feeling with me; it's a very good point for Mandrakesoft products, so Mandrakesoft would be well inspired to do more for its "PPC Department". I do not add more arguments, I think it is useless, because this point seems too obvious. I hope only that the discussion will be finally very useful for the Mandrake ppc future. Jo. -- Joseph Vidal-Rosset Universit� de Bourgogne D�partement de Philosophie Facult� des Lettres 2 bd Gabriel, 21 000 Dijon Page web: http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/PHILO/joseph.vidal-rosset
