>
> 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.
actually I don't see a problem with using rc software if it's proven to be
more stable and better than the last known "stable" version of the software.
-- Geoff.
