Kevin,
You are the second person to say this about newer releases of Mandrake, I
am looking forward to 7.1 final. Does anyone have a guestimated/exact date
for release? I've been hounding the .fr and tucows server for a final ISO
for the last week.
Best wishes,
Riyad Kalla
Java Programmer
Game Enthusiast
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 5:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake's Stability
Apropos stability: I have had the OPPOSITE experience. Absolutely rock
solid - both official releases and betas. I do S/W development (mostly
network and embedded stuff) on both this here laptop and my dual
processor machine @ home. I guess I don't do the same stuff you do
which tickles the bugs!
Apropos quick development life-cycles: Mandrake has been very quick to
respond to bugs/suggestions. The "cooker" mechanism does appear to
field test lots of code quite quickly. Given that the target platform
is pretty diverse; this seems the only sensible strategy - they can't
own every possible configuration of weird boards and software. As an
engineering methodology, it isn't a bad idea - there are many historical
precidents. DEC used essentially the same technique with their first
Pascal compiler. We essentially beta'd it here: nothing like hoardes of
first year students to detect the rough edges. From memory, we were
sending a couple of bugs a week and getting new versions at about the
same rate. The rate of release of "things" in cooker is pretty extreme
- you are looking into the active cache of recently completed work, so
I'd have to say anyone who makes use of cooker needs to be aware of the
potential for instability (tho' I've never had that problem). The
"update" mechanism for the standard distribution only has a trickle of
"must-do" updates - this points to a pretty stable S/W base. Seems to
me all the data points towards supporting the conjecture that the
engineering mechanism used results in good, timely code.
Just my $0.02
/Kevin
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University of Adelaide Fax: +61 8 8303 4366
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