>Actually yours may not be one of them. They had to use a special kernel to
>run
>the GUI install and they don't have your CD drive. The only alternative is
>a
>drop-out to text mode *and * booting a different kernel. There are QA
>issues
>to address, and there is NO system for QA that is likely to work on their
>development model, which is why I want to recruit you and others to put
>together a proposed system for it.... But get over the idea that this CD
>issue
>of yours is a bug. Hardware gets left behind all the time.
>
Thankyou Thank you Thank you.
You are the first person to give me an explanation to the problem since the
release of O2.
As for the QC\QA problem, I think software companies should look at the four
D's; data, debug, develop, distribute.
Mandrake does a pretty good job of collecting the necessary data for their
product and I hope they pay attention to all of the other lists out there in
order to keep from recreating other distribution's problems. They seem to be
good at developing now that they have come out from under the Redhat shadow
and I hope they continue to develop the software their customers are asking
for with each new distribution. For example they added Blackbox, which I
feel is one of the slimmest most dependable window managers available for
Linux, to their distribution. The two problem areas for Mandrake seem to be
in the debugging and distribution stages.
They either don't have the manpower to do the necessary debugging or they
are taking on the big 'APPLE' corporate mentality and telling us to take
what they give us as far as HW compatability goes. I hope it's the first
one. Then on top of this they may be overeagerly labeling there product as
stable before it really is. Granted stability is relative in Linux and you
can't carry old HW drivers forever in order to grow into a cutting edge
distribution. But when something is dropped during the BETA release and they
receive complaints about the problem, they should reincorporate the missing
code by the 2nd post BETA release. Or in the world of Linux, give an ample
explanation of the problem so that individual users can try to solve it for
them. Instead, they gave the old 'we can't seem to recreate the problem on
our testing machines', which IMHO, in the world of custom PC's equates to
'tough stuff'. This may be the wrong attitude.
I'm starting to lose my train of thought on this so I will send this to you
now and see what you think.
Thanx,
SA
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