Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

[Dan Swartzendruber]

I just want to reemphasize that I wasn't intending to flame anyone.  But my 
point remains.  When linux was a totally ad-hoc thing, there was an excuse 
for this kind of thing. Now, with companies like mandrake building and 
shipping distros, I sometimes wonder if there is even a pretense at quality 
control.  I don't think mandrake is any worse than redhat, caldera or 
whoever, and I don't expect bottomless, free maintenance, but I do expect 
something close to stable.  I haven't tried 7.02, but from what I heard, 
the initial 7.0 was absolutely terrible, in terms of quality.  I know there 
are limited man-hours to do a new release, but if I had a choice, I'd opt 
for some larger chunk to be spent on QA as opposed to neat new features.  I 
haven't played with other distros before, so I have no idea how they stack 
up against mandrake on this issue.