Sorry... I was just talking about the future features the next version should have had in my opinion...
I know that most of my advises are not involved to your work. I hope a part of them will be realized by developers, so MDK will be able to integrate them in the next release. Best regards, Luca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:59 PM Subject: Re: [Cooker] [Mandrake 10] An Idea for next MDK 10... > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 11:37, Luca Landi wrote: > > .. my personal guess for new Mandrake 10 (or 9.3?!?!)... > > > > - GCC 3.3.2 or better GCC 3.4.x > > - Linux Kernel 2.6.x > > - New KDE 3.2.x > > - New Lib QT 3.2.x > > - improved ACPI support! (Now is very bad!) > > Um. MDK doesn't write acpi support. acpi4linux write that. MDK just > patch it into the kernel. We already use their latest code, there's > nothing else we can do. > > > - improved Notebook/Laptop support with hibernate/suspend native support!!!! > > (for me is very very important!!!) > > Again. Out of MDK's hands. We already have the best support available - > latest APM, ACPI and pmsuspend code. > > > - Support for new PCI-X bus > > - improved support for USB-2 > > - improved support for S-ATA 1 and S-ATA 2 (with hardware RAID support)!!! > > Nothing to do with MDK. This is kernel code. > > > - Special support for new CPU: Amd-K8, Amd-Athlon64, Amd Athlon64FX, Intel > > Centrino, new evolutions of Intel P4....?!? > > There's already an AMD64 Cooker branch. Check the mirrors. What "special > support" would you need for Centrino? Centrino is marketing hype, it's > the the Pentium-M processor, which is perfectly well supported already. > What "special support" would future revisions of the P4 need? > > > - Special Kernel support for HyperTrading Tecnology.....??? > > Um. HT is already perfectly well supported in the kernel, has been for > ages. > > > - New Samba 3!! See: http://de.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-3.0.0.html (24 > > September 2003) > > Already in contrib. > > > - Kdevelop 3.0 > > - Gnome 2.3.x or if available... 2.4 > > Already in 9.2. > > > - Mplayer 1.x > > Already in contrib. > > > - Mozilla 1.5 > > Will be coming as soon as we unfreeze, I expect. Fred's fast. > > > - improved support for new Graphics Card..... (see new ATI (and IGP), > > S3-Via, GeForce4/5....) > > Not MDK's code. That's XFree's job. > > > - Gimp 1.3.20.... See: http://www.gnome.org/~drc/gimp-rpms/ > > Already in. > > <snip more pointless lists of new releases which will of course be > included> - look, all this stuff is already in Mandrake. OF COURSE 9.3 / > 10 will have the new versions of it, what do you expect, no updates? > This email was practically pointless. Honestly. > -- > adamw > >
