On Sun, 9 Sep 2001, civileme wrote: > On Saturday 08 September 2001 12:38, Michael D. Viron wrote: > > At 05:01 PM 09/08/2001 +0200, joy_ping wrote: > > >On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> Moving from mdk7.2 to 8.0 required a complete reinstall to make > > >> sure no "ghosts from the past" remain to cause problems. > > > > > >this is a mandrake thing i think. cause they have some misteries directory > > >organisation, and they changed it so hard, that it is completly different > > >from the further releases. its not only unusable for other software, its > > >unusable for the mandrake-made-updatetools too!! > > > The "Mysterious Directory Organizaion" you speak of is available at various > web sites. I happen to keep a copy because I refer to it often in my job as > a QA engineer. http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~civileme/fhs-2.2.pdf im started to read this doc and i agree with you that its a normal and good thing to make such kind of standartization, cause every linux-distribution seemed to made its own structure and was not very compatible with the other ones. but lets tell the truth: if mandrake made this really great step, with changing the directory-structure, updating some important libs, specially glibc, updating gcc (this is a special point too), for my taste you had to wait one - three months more till you released the 8.0 one, cause this 8.0 was not a real 0 one it was more an 7.9 i think. and the reason for this 0 release was not a rational one, depending on a development of a distribution, it was cause mandrake was going public on the financial market. please dont tell me the 8.0 release had nothing to do with the going public thing. its clear that your managment wanted this release BEFORE you were gone to the stock market. but anyway i installed the 8.0 release on one of our webservers and its running fine till now, but for a heavy-equipped router (4 networkcards, wireless, etc), im sad to tell you i choosed a debian distribution, cause i was afraid to change a mk-8.0-distro in a way that this router would work. r. z.
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