I hope distro politics isn't too far off topic here. :-)

IMO it's the little cosmetic things that will make or break the commercial
release.  To me, Mandrake is the distro that's gonna save me from Windows
hell.  I am a bit of a geek, I go to LUG meetings and I even do a little
programming, but I'm no great hacker.  I'm sorry I can't give bug reports in
hex code the way the maintainers seem to want.  All I can do is say "this
doesn't work" or "that doesn't work" and try to be as descriptive as
possible.  Its things like Evolution forgetting my password, Galeon
forgetting the name of the file I'm downloading if I try to change the
directory it's saving in, not being able to navigate the tree view in gmc,
and Nautilus crashing constantly, that threaten Mandrake's success.  I'm not
going to let these things keep me from buying the 8.2 box, but others who
are less determined probably will.

Krum

> That's why I suggested that the fix be posted to the forum, so we
> can begin
> documenting the little fixes that are, for now, of lesser
> importantance to
> the maintainers.


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