I'd have thought it was fairly obvious why the releases have to be rushed out - as soon as it's announced that a product it going into beta phase, who in their right mind would buy the old, out dated release??! fairly few I'd imagine... There isn't an OS out there that can afford to hang around squashing all the bugs (well, apart from slackware, and do we really want to move to their 2 yr dev cycle and let mdk go bankrupt in the mean time? ;) Financially for mandrake, it would be a disaster to leave it much longer...
8.2 is already one of the most stable mdk distro's ever (a hard feat for a distro that prides itself on being bleeding edge) - and in the coming weeks, it's only going to get better as the last few bugs are fixed..... With rpmdrake now doing updates through proxies, it's also relatively idiot proof to keep a machine upto date now I'm guessing in maybe a month or two, a freq will be released, and that'll be the 8.x line closed off with a super stable distro - you could ask why didn't they wait, but if we're really honest about it, i doubt that many people are going to notice the last few bugs (as shown by how silent the cook list has been for the last few days...) On Tuesday 19 March 2002 1:25 am, you wrote: > (Posted from my corporate Windows machine because mail from my > Mandrake / Evolution personal account is silently rejected by > the cooker list... Why? ARRRGH.) > ~snip~ >ws how many other things before it will > be usable. Sigh. > > What was the rush for 8.2 release??? I still haven't seen a good > explanation of that. > > Disappointed... > > Torrey Hoffman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
