Time drift is not necessarily a bug but a normal fact of life in
computing. It may be the product of numerous interrupts. The more
processes you have running over a period of time the more opportunities
for interrupts to occur, the greater the time drift. That is why timed
exists, and also utilities that will periodically fetch time from a
reliable source, i.e. the atomic clock in Boulder, and set the current
time for the box holding the timed server and serving the rest of the
network.
We are getting into way too much bashing. This thread should really be
named '6.1 Helios observations (Bug reports the sequel)'. In deference
to Gael I think we should be 100%, or as close as possible, sure
something is a bug and not just our own error or failure to get up to
speed on a process/problem before reporting same.
Maybe we could all drop this thread until we see what the actual release
turns out like. Give them time to work on bugs instead of defending
themselves here all the time. After the official release we may then
have grounds for our comments, but we surely do not need the vociferous
attacks we have seen here on an uncompleted work.
Ken Wilson
First Law of Optimization: The speed of a nonworking program is
irrelevant
(Steve Heller, 'Efficient C/C++ Programming')
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Max Klohn
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:44 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] 6.1 Helios observations
>
>
> Aw Come on Gael, don't exagerate in the other way... There
> _are_ still some
> serious bugs (who wants a server with a time drift for
> example) that neeed to
> be addressed. Most people aren't bashing you.
> Yours isn't a professional answer, you cannot hope to have
> CUSTOMERS and/or
> POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS paying for a distro and then tell them
> something like "sod
> off" at the first complaint. Very bad policy.
>
>
> > I'd like you guys not to
> >keep on bashing us like that: it's totally useless and by the way, if
> >you feel bad with Mandrake, why don't you leave and use another
> >distribution?
> >
> >Greets,
> >
> > Gael.
> >--
> >< Gael DUVAL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> >< Mandrake 6.1beta on http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cassini>
>
