On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Combelles, Christophe (MED, ALTEN) wrote:

>> She just goes on whining about the Mandrake Control Center for the rest 
>> of the review.  OK, so she ran into some rare bug that almost nobody else 
>> encountered.  What does that prove?  Also, it looks to me like she is 
>> testing it on a 5-year-old machine.  I have an outdated 800Mhz P3, and the 
>> login process on the console takes about half a second, while she claims 
>> that it takes 3-4 seconds.
> 
> She can be right for the login, because it takes about 5 seconds on my 
> athlon1,2G to login in the text console. Just as if there was some 
> timeout or something.

  That might not be the case now, but it used to be what happened to me
ONLY if I installed devfsd, which nowadays I'm very careful NOT to do.
I don't know if that's the problem in your case, but it might be.

> I don't think that such a review must be completely rejected, but it 
> must be correctly analyzed to find the real problems.

  True.

Dale Huckeby


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