On Monday 11 March 2002 23:52, Brad Felmey wrote: > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:03, SI Reasoning wrote: >> Don't be in such a rush! I feel it is much more >> important to work through all of these fixes and >> release the most stable version possible.
>> Personally, I think it is VERY important to have >> things work out of the box. > <snip> >> Especially businesses, who are taking the >> hardest look at Mandrake (for both servers and as a >> desktop) > I second this. I'm pinning a lot of hope on Mdk 8.2 for desktop > duty at work for our programmers. I third this. 8.0 and 8.1, despite having loads more useful features (like ext3 and mod_dav) and up-to-date applications (like ethereal and KOffice), also had some significant things which did not work well (or usually at all) out of the box, like Broadcast 2000 and WINE. I would *much* rather that significant things like this worked well *OUT*OF*THE*BOX* (ie, no recompiles, no adding of Windows libraries etc) than have it look nicer or be released earlier, impatient as I am to get my hands on a nice neat package full of shiny new toys. Also, the whole Open Source community benefits from the close inspections that their applications suffer during intense Cookering. Cheers; Leon
