On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 12:18, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not willing to troll but the following comment is funny: > <https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/skipjack-list/2002-March/000338.html> > > I wonder who includes Mozilla 0.9.9 and kde3 cvs... > >
The comment made in the link above, about "That bleeding edge stuff is for Mandrake.", well... First of all, Mandrake does have a rep for including "unstable" software in production releases. I think as of 8.2 this has vastly changed, and Mandrake is going to show it's stability face to the rest of the world. Second, I don't believe there's one distro (major) who has never included some sort of "unstable" or "pre" || "rc" software in a production release, if someone can think of one, lemme know : ) Take a look at the scandal regarding pretty much all of the major distributions and gcc-2.96... That wasn't even an official version. So, from that view, I think it's very ill on that person's behalf to say that, in what seemed to be a derogatory way. Also, keep in mind that this single individual does not speak for Redhat, and I don't think anyone on this list or any other should be throwing flames at either one. Then you also have to look at who the Redhat audience and their target is, and the same for Mandrake, then you can see why a lot of this done. Yet, at the core, it's all software, and it all sucks, sorry to break the bad news : P A stable release can be just as unstable as a cvs snapshot. So, in that respect, it would seem logical that you should simply go with what's working (fcrozat@ demonstrated this well with the Mozilla 0.9.9 dispute before 8.2 was slated final) and not based on the version number (sometimes, a new digit on a version scheme doesn't mean anything *cough* MS *cough*). I've already spoken too much on the matter, the matter is simply void of that, it doesn't matter. Yet, I will say, GNU/Linux Mandrake is on the right path, and that does matter... -- Bryan Paxton Public PGP key: http://www.deadhorse.net/bpaxton.gpg Trying, the volition devoid of action, this is idleness. Doing, the volition replete in motion, a process. Being that all things are impermanent, this process is constant. If one realizes such, the process is in all actuality, one step. A motion that can not be reversed, but may be halted. Both ways does this sway.
