Re: [Cooker] 9.0 and next

[marcos colome]

I have run several beta testing during this present years including Microsoft.net, but

Manadrake has improved a lot in only four or 5 years, I remembered the first Mandrake that I purchased that really gave a hard time to install and configure but

Mandrake 9.0 is very good even so that It is not final version and it is incomplete

without the commercial packages, I do not know If Mandrake will be using Star Office 6.0, but I have not seen the great improvement from 5.2 to 6.0, I prefer to

use KDE office, it run much better than 6.0, maybe I am mistaken but that is my

impression using Mandrake 8.2 and Suse 8.0, even so Suse is not using SO 6.0

on its 8.1 version. The Mandrake 9.0 has very nice color, and it is very friendly to

be used, I had some difficulties with the new video cards, and it did not want to install on the new AMD chipset for dual processors, I had to install it on a single

processor motherboard, many home users are building dual processor computers

as file servers, and many home offices are using servers and powerfull workstations

even gamers are using dual processors motherboards, when I installed the printers

I had a couple of errors but it was able to fix them, besides all that the 9.0 is a very

good operating systems, let see what will happen , because many good Linux are

coming out on October thru December, even better than Microsoft.net that I have

tested both the Standard and the Enterprise.  The connection for updating was improved on this version, because I had many difficulties with 8.2. I would like to

congratulate Mandrake developers for the job that they have done and I think that in

the future we will see Linux dominating the desktop market because it is getting bigger and bigger everyday

 

 Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

On Wednesday September 25 2002 12:35 PM, Warly wrote:
> 9.0 is (likely to be) finished.
>
> Thanks to you all for your precious help.
>
> During last 6 months period, and especially in the last beta period,
> some of you give some advice/critic/flame regarding Mandrakesoft
> development process.
>
> It is now the right time to debrief all this.
>
> Please comment on what you liked, disliked in the 9.0 building,
> testing and problem reporting process.

I've been runnin 8.3/9.0 since June (previous cooker before that),
the only 9.0 bug I reported was fixed before my post showed up ;)
Mostly I'm a lurker.

> I already collect on various mandrake IRC channels:

http://www.mandrakeforum.org/article.php?sid=2284&lang=en
"If you want help, use MandrakeExpert or the mailing lists or the alt.os.linux.mandrake newsgroup, the various #mandrake IRC channels
etc."

Actually there's even cooker bug reports posted to various other
linux newsgroups. Y'all might note that 'mailing lists' in the above
quote is a link to all the Mdk lists, newbie, expert, cooker, etc. I
don't think this should change, nor do I believe it ever will. Most
users are more intimidated by the cooker list than tryin to run cooker.
Many don't want to subscribe or even be bothered to check the cooker ML
archive. Most are discouraged if they don't get acknowledged.

Still they don't have any hesitation to discuss cooker problems or
bugs on the other lists or newsgroups. There they do often get
acknowledged, even helped. So, seems to me, those of us that do run and
subscribe to the cooker list, and other lists, could help a lot by
coaxing these reports from 'other sources' into a usable form and
report them to the cooker list ourselve! s. It would entail an effort by
some cooker volunteers (my hand is up).

OTOH, a policy of discouraging bug reports to this list only, other
sources as inappropriate, not only would mostly fall on deaf ears, but
also foster the 'useless' or obsolete (ie, already fixed in current
cooker) reports many of y'all have been complaining about. (Maybe those
persons should volunteer also ;)

--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas

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