On Saturday 21 September 2002 08:29 pm, SI Reasoning wrote: > This is the internal mouse for the laptop that he had lock up on him. No > problems with it in 8.2. Most of the little things are just that. The fine > tuning that a few additional weeks would bring, but it makes all of the > difference in usability. Personally, I would consider it ready when cooker > gets boring for lack of activity. :-}
By that time, it would be too late to release - after all, Mandrake is supposed to be a cutting-edge distro. You want a distribution that is "ready" - go use the stable debian tree with old-time favorites such as XFree 4.1.0 and KDE 2.2. Even then, I somehow doubt that they have less problems than Mandrake does. If you keep fixing bugs, more will get introduced in the process. You can't have bug-free software especially when you try to shoot a moving target. Finally, some people will have weird problems in any case. There are hardware and software glitches that are impossible to prevent or track down. No two PCs are identical, and you can't test every configuration. We just have to settle for a distribution that works well for 99% of the users. -- -- Igor
