On Sun, 2003-03-30 at 16:41, Pierre Jarillon wrote: > Le Lundi 31 Mars 2003 01:27, Edward Tandi a �crit : > > > > > > But I do personally think that the quality is beginning to suffer. I > > > > > think Mandrake should be releasing less frequently and have a longer > > > > > stability/testing/fixing period. If you look at the reviews of Linux > > > > > distros, the highest points are awarded to those that work with the > > > > > least number of problems. > > I agree with a longer stability/testing/fixing period. Now, there is enough of > things in the distro and the main interest of the users will be the stability > and a lower number a bug. > IMHO, Mdk 8.2 was the best usable distro and since this time the quality > is beginning to suffer. It is absolutly necessary to do better. > > The frequency of releases is not important.
I think we are starting to see the result of maturity. Linux is now over 10 years old. As an operating system and it's corresponding tools mature it does tend to slow down. By this I mean that many of the programs now included tend to change less and less. Most mind you not all. Yet the drive to have something "new" in each release tends to introduce as much in the way of bugs as it fixes. RH is dropping the dot release SuSE users I know say that they are talking about it as well. (any verification?) perhaps the time has come to start looking at a slower release cycle, and/or niche releases ie laptop, MNF Multimedia etc. James
