Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 10-Jul-00 by Sean Middleditch:
>
> > How trustworthy are these RPM's?
> >
> > For example, the install on MDK 7.1 said the Xfree86 4.0 is was installing was
> > only a 'snapshot release.' The really upsets me if it is, because it sure as
> > hell wasn't advertised as being so... If not, then that's just another
> > example of MDK's poor quality control when it comes to installations.
>
> Have you visited www.xfree86.org? XF4 is not ready for primetime
> according to them, which is why every other distro oly offers XF3.
> While many of us, myself included, are able to run it with no
> difficulty, it is experimental sofware, part of being on Mandrake's
> "bleeding edge," not poor quality control.
>
A snapshot release of XF86 4.0 and the fact that 4.0 isn't ready for prime-time are
two different things altogether... a snapshot would mean either a) based off of
code before 4.0 was released, which would be unstable, or b) code after 4.0 but
before 4.01, in between releases, which would be unstable. Bleeding edge would be
a non-snapshot of 4.0. Perhaps they simply mis-used the work snapshot, but it
worried me none-the-less.
Sean Middleditch
