On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 02:39:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Warly wrote: > > > It may be a good idea, before cooker opens again, to take these days to > > have some brainstorm. > > Stop using the term RC. Recent rc versions are nothing but late betas, > not even close to suitable for release. Go to beta 4, 5, 6, or even 7 if > necessary. Maybe use the term rc one time on a discretional basis if > there is one single outstanding unresolved major issue.
My understanding is that RC indicates feature freeze, and at least there is a need to indicate feature freeze in some way. keld > > - What could we do, as a community, to increase the acceptance of mandrakelinux? > > Boxes on the store shelves, and included at least as an option with far > more new PC's. Did you notice what Lindows just did? Lindows is now > installed on "all" new Seagate HD's, almost like all those 500, 700 & > 1000 free hour AOL CD's we in the US don't seem to be able to avoid. Yes, good idea. > > And anything related to the mandrakelinux distro. > > Package management in the GUI (not necessarily good in console either) > is horrid: Yes, about a month or so there was some discussion on rpmdrake and apt that you could take into consideration. > 1-The main menu should say "software management" or > "install/remove/update programs" instead of "packaging". Packaging is > preparing a product for distribution and sale, but installation is > installation, not packaging. > > 2-"Software management" should open one panel with 5 options instead of > a submenu with 5 options. It should be an integrated suite, if not one > simple app. > > 3-"Configure media" is incomprehensible, and needs to be rebuilt with a > design a windoze convert (or any non-geek) can understand. It should > automatically initialize the usual mirror selection, so that messages > about "nothing to install" would never happen on a system that has never > been updated before. It needs to be much smarter about deciding where to > look for what is actually available. Users don't care about hdlists.cz > errors, only whether they can do what they want, which is find, add, > remove or update a program. They shouldn't need to see a main list that > specifies the location of each installation CD, particularly since they > typically were all located on the save device. yes, good ideas > > 4-Installation from network or HD without having to extract the contents > of ISO files first. If install can ever set up a loopback to do CD1, it > ought to be able to do any case. Good idea, I think if you can install from one cd image, it should also be easy to loopback open the other two iso9660 images too in a network or hd install. Best regards Keld
