Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.

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> 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 

Well, if you actually compare it to Red Hat Linux 6.1, you will quickly see
that the Mandrake is much better. There remain to do some optical improvements 
in the installer, but the number of bugs is much smaller than with Red Hat
Linux. 

> 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.

If you consider that there are several hundred programmers at Red Hat doing
QA etc all the time, the question remains how many people are working on
Linux Mandrake. 5 ? 10 ? For the number of people involved and the time this
distribution is on the market, they are doing a good job - at least much 
better than Red Hat does. Certainly good things can always be improved.
But flaming and bashing doesn't help us here. What have you personally done
for QA of Linux Mandrake recently ? How many bug reports/fixes have you
sent ? 

Bernd

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