On Saturday 28 September 2002 04:21 pm, Wes Kurdziolek wrote: > If these issues are so important to you, why don't you find out what RH > does different and submit a patch?
I hate hearing that response, sounds like something microsoft would say if they did open source. Not everyone can or has the time to learn their way around a project written by someone else just to fix every bug they find. This guy should be listened to, not told to go fix it, if he really has done his part in reporting the bugs during the beta process and they haven't been addressed we (as open source community/developers) should be looking at how we could do better to follow up on stuff like this later. I'm sure he can't be the only guy with the problems and fixing them will only make Mandrake even better. Let's be glad that even with these shortcomings that he still chooses Mandrake, there's a lot to be said there. People like him are the customers that Mandrake needs to be able to fund itself in the future, a loyal user is often a loyal evangelist. I have the same problem with switching between consoles and X and VMWare, I also had a problem with my Radeon 7500 causing X to come up as a nothing more than a black screen at boot. I was able to communicate to Vladimir, with the gatos devel crew, and he fixed the problem with the 7500 causing blank startups, for whatever reason he didn't seem too interested in fixing the switching between console and X issue, which by the way has been brought up time and time again on the gatos lists, and quite a few people aren't happy about it. While this isn't Mandrakes fault did anyone take the time to tell Robert that he should contact Vladimir, or direct him to the gatos mail lists, or even better yet see what redhat was doing different - I mean after all they are almost a linux distro, so there's a possibility we could learn 1 or 2 things from them. -- Jason Straight
