On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 11:06:20PM -0500, Jason Straight wrote: > On Monday 18 March 2002 17:28, Keld J�rn Simonsen wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I joined the beta testing for Mandrake because I like the distro, > > but chose to run RedHat 7.2 instead of Mandrake 8.1 as the latter > > had too many things not working for me. > > Like what?
my pcmcia networking. Show stopper for me. > I hoped that if I joined > > the testing I could contribute to a much more stable and error free > > distro. I think that was achieved to some degree, but there are still > > a number of problems as released in 8.2 that I do not have with > > RH 7.2 . > > > > I think the quality of the distro itself is very important. > > We can have all kinds of nifty upgrades, but ordinary people > > do not download them, and stick to the initial releases as they > > come on the distro CDs. > > > > Have MandrakeSoft any ideas of how well used the upgrading > > SW is? How big a percentage of your users do not upgrade? > > This coming from a redhat user? Have you looked at the bugtraq stats at all? > Redhat accounts for more than 1/2 of all security updates for ALL counted > linux distro's combined! Please look at my question. I think RedHat users do not upgrade either. > Did you report the bugs during cooker or did you just wait till today when > 8.2 was final to complain? In case you are new here on cooker, I have reported about 30 different problems on 8.2 beta1, beta3, beta4, and rc1. A few were bogus, but quite some led to changes, and a number of them are unresolved. > > A little more concrete: Mandrake has an enterprise edition. > > There is not so much hype about this. And enterprises really > > appreciate stability, and lack of errors. Maybe Mandrakesoft > > could try to fix all the errors in 8.2 and then issue this as > > the Enterprise edition, with the added bells and whistles that > > you normally do for that? And without the big specific deadline, or > > with a deadline that would allow a lot of testing and bug solving. What is the release plan for the enterprise edition? Kind regards keld
