Re: [expert] GET READY FOR A DISCUSSION (fwd)

[Brook humphrey]

lorne schachter wrote:
> 
> I like where Mandrake is going with installation, but I think I want a little
> more interaction in picking out
> the packages to load.  There are so many, by default you almost load all of
> them to save problems later on,
> so:
>     1) Provide some more information/documentation about the packages
>     2) Make it easy to opt out of, say, foreign language support as a unit
> across all packages
>     3) Provide an interface to pull a package off the distribution CD if you
> forgot to load it on install
> 
> More hardware support, I have an Xwave-192 sound card that I haven't been
> able to use
> 
> I'd love to try out beta releases, but there's no way I'll be able to
> download 600M of data reliably, so maybe
> you want to have some sort of biweekly/monthly CD distribution for people to
> try out.


I currently offer this service already.


> 
>                 Thanks and keep up the improvements,
> 
>                 Lorne
> 
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