On Friday 07 March 2003 11:54 am, Sascha Noyes wrote: > > I agree with Warly here. People do not seem to notice that Mandrake has a > certain development philosophy: > > 1. Release every 6 months > 2. Include the latest stable versions of popular software, irrespective > whether it might be unpolished. > > This has always been the case with Mandrake, and that is why they also have > such a large following with "power-users" (not guru's but not complete > newbies). Anybody who thinks that the above two points are new has not been > around to see many of Mandrake's releases. I think if you want to get > Mandrake to change their policy (like the Debian-like 3-phase suggestion) > you are going to have to have pretty good arguments for why this would be > better (and not lead to eg. Debian-like outdatedness in the stable version) > You have just described exactly why I chose Mandrake. I am willing to put up with some "issues" to have the latest and greatest.
-- Greg
