On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:09, Bruno Prior wrote: > I just wanted people to see that the faults in the initial 9.2 release > were causing real-life damage amongst less sophisticated linux users > than Cooker subscribers. And that this damage hurts more than > Mandrake - it hurts linux.
I think if Bill Gates really *understood* how much similar pain his own users go through with MS-Windows bugs, in *every* release, it'd be wrist-slitting time for him. The Mandrake people are a lot less subject to unreasonable denial than Bill is, but still they're human and imperfect. With 9.2, there's very little that they can do, and they're doing all of it. The LG issue really is an LG problem: their firmware is not ATAPI compliant, their drives are broken. However, I do think that wider testing before release is a fine idea, and I do think Mandrake could do with an extra Alpha release about a week or two before they would normally start the Betas, specifically to get any changes crammed in early so that they have time to be exposed to lots of machines. About all else Mandrake could do would be spend money they don't have on a wide range of cruddy bottom-of-the-range hardware they don't really want and then spend time they don't have installing to it to see if it breaks. Cheers; Leon
