On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 14:46, Alastair Scott wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 12:49, tom447 wrote:
>
> > We've been anticipating 9.0 and testing the RC's. With
> > RC3, some of us are having trouble mounting CDROM drives.
> > People scoff at things like this and problems with mice,
> > but a bug like this will kill the foothold we worked hard
> > to get Mandrake. It would also fuel the Microsoft skeptics
> > that have constantly hassled us.
>
> Perhaps this is an impertinent question ... but are you obliged to move
> to 9.0? It sounds as though a considerable effort has been put into 8.2,
> and perhaps it would be best to do nothing.
>
> Unlike Microsoft products there is no compulsion to upgrade*; I don't
> know what'll happen in the future, but 8.0 and 8.1 were still having
> patches produced when 8.2 was extant and I suggest it would be a
> terrible mistake if patches were not produced for 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 when
> 9.0 becomes extant.
Unfortunately a platform is only as good as the new programs being
produced for it. I would like to stay on 8.2 for a while after 9.0 is
released but there are pieces of software that I'm really aching for.
Above everything else I wish to run the latest Evolution (1.0.8?) on 8.2
as I'm still stuck on the bug ridden 1.0.2. Mozilla 1.0.1 and Galeon
1.2.6 would also be good but my requests on for them on the cooker list
have fallen on death ears. I would build them myself but I lack the
space for the source and the bandwidth to get the necessary SRPMS in the
first place on my Mandrake machine :(
