> Ughh..MILO....the easyist way around this is usually to make /boot a
> seperate partition, or say that you don't support machines booting from
> MILO (SRM only, unfortunatly that does leave out a few machines, UX, XL).
and my machine... for some reason SRM doesn't like my Matrox MII.
> > So... if you want to see a mandrake distro coming out on the alpha
> > please
> > join in on the "cooker" development. Subscribe to the mailing list and
> > offer to test the distro on your machine.
> > > (And as an aside, any idea why Alpha architecture version wasn't out first?)
> > Probably the lack of involvment of alpha-owners in the cooker project. I
> > beleive
> > I'm pretty much the only one (Could all alpha owners on the cooker list
> > raise their hand?).
> I think we need to be a little realistic here...I for one, did not know
> about the Mandrake cooker project, and I did not know we could help with
> the porting effort (did anybody else know this?). If you don't tell
> people, don't be surprised when they don't help, right?
Very true... This is one of the main problems I've been facing. The
thing
is, I'm not in the position to do the announcements. I've discussed this
over and over with the folks at mandrake. They have to decide if they
want
to get people involved, if they have the resources to handle the
bugfixes
/ comments etc. etc. and if their company actually _wants_ this product.
It's not up to me. I personally feel that I've already said too much in
my post to axp-list and cooker this morning, but I can't stand watching
a "project" inch onwards while there are many people that could help
alot.
I have the impression that Mandrake wants to release a bugless beta
release, and until then, they're keeping things quiet. If that's their
policy, that's fine. I respect that. But things won't move ahead as fast
as they could.
As ESR says... release early & often...
> If you'd like we'd be more than happy to post a news item at alphalinux.org
> and send the info to the other mailing lists telling people it out there
> if they want to help....
I'm not employed by mandrake. Please contact mandrake directy if you
want
official statements.
For the un-official stuff: I can confirm that the developers at mandrake
are accepting patches for the alpha-port. They have demoed
linux-mandrake
on alpha machines during the Linux-Expo show in Paris. They have a few
alpha machines on which they are developping...
So... I've already said too much...
Stefan van der Eijk
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