On Sunday 17 March 2002 19:36, Mattias Dahlberg wrote: > I think one of the common pit-falls for Linux distributors is trying to do > it all best. The possible uses of Linux have become so many and so diverse > that unless you have an unlimited amount of developers you need to focus.
> If you don't focus the chances are you will end up with a distribution > that has flaws in many different areas and fails to do anything a 100%. OTOH, a lot of packages are interrelated. If you don't focus also on the dependencies, they will undermine your efforts in the focus area. IMHO, Mandrake's stability issues with 8.1 fell almost entirely into two well-defined classes: new device drivers and new applications. Base services (like Apache or xinetd) seemed to do pretty well. Intuition says that more focus on these two areas still would not have helped all that much, as in, would quickly have fallen below any nominal breakeven point. Cheers; Leon
