Digital Wokan wrote:
You might want to go get some ketchup to go with that foot. As I was reading things last week, it looked like that where going to go final last Wednesday, and here we are still in the RC stage, so AFAIK they have been pushing back the release date. While I still have some issues with certain pieces of software in 9rc3, they haven't been anything critical to the operation of the system (mainly a segfault in Everybuddy right now, not good, but hardly essential to the operation and enjoyment of a Linux box).On Saturday 21 September 2002 19:38, SI Reasoning wrote:I have heard this argument before but don't buy it. I am not talking about waiting years here... Just taking the time to release the product when it is ready instead of forcing a deadline. Mandrake 8.2 was released despite a known serious issue with smb with the kernel. That was something that definately should have been fixed before release. This is not to say you don't aim for a deadline, but even Microsoft will fearlessly delay release, often for months. Igor Izyumin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: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
