I'm referring to the problem that Mandrake 7.00 7.01 7.02 installers have
initializing 'some' atapi cdroms. I have no clue why this is and Mandrake
refuses to fix or even help someone fix this bug when they could obviously
take some code from earlier distributions, but then they wish to get ou from
underneath the RedHat shadow. I've tried to get this problem fixed, I've
talked with some people on this list and at Mandrake and 'noone' seems to
have a fix for it. I'm not hte only person that has run across this problem
and I posted this message to the list to inform people of what a shoddy
product Mandrake released in hopes that the masses could possibly help solve
this problem instead of being led around by the corporate chain and
believing that Mandrake has produced this 'wonderful' product. THAT is part
of the purpose of lists like this. I'm not whining about the problem, I'm
simply fed up with 'subpar' service by and industry that is part of the
customer service industry. I guess you can't expect people to put forth a
good effort on something that is free.
SA
>From: Brian T. Schellenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:57:43 -0500
>
>
>First, I think you should send this to Mandrake, not to a user's group.
>
>Second, if that's your attitude we'll all be happy to see you go.
>
>OTOH, I have some sympathy for your attitude. It seems to be very hard
>to get a definitive answer to whether a problem has been fixed or not,
>though I admit to being unsure of precisely what problem you are
>complaining about.
>
>On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Sean Armstrong wrote:
>| For the life of me, I can not understand why Mandrake continues to ship a
>| defective product. If their older versions had no problem initializing
>| cdroms and their new version DOES have problems initializing cdroms, then
>| why not correct that part of the code with the older versions part of
>code?
>| I'm no computer genius, but this problem is asinine. With a competitive
>| market for Linux distributions that is growing everyday, it seems to me
>that
>| Mandrake can't afford to pissoff their customers. For that matter, with
>the
>| ever expanding market of computer OS's, now up to 4 reliable ones, I
>would
>| think that Mandrake would try to avoid driving their customers away. Once
>| again, Mandrake rushed an unfinished product to market. I guess in the
>world
>| of computers you don't have to have a real business plan or even
>understand
>| business to get ahead for a little while. So, until Mandrake decides to
>| correct these issues, I for on am going back to the more RELIABLE Redhat
>| distribution. At least their head isn't THAT far up their arse. Good Day
>and
>| Good Luck.
>| SA
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