On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 14:58, Craig Williamson (ENZ) wrote: > Hi All, > > With the hype finally dying down from the current round of distro > releases I thought I would add my two cents into the pool for the next > version of Mandrake. > <1 and 2 are the same suggestion>
I really don't care about the look and feel, because the only tool I use is DrakConf which is working pretty nicely (did prefer the old rpmdrake, but not enough to fight to the death on a mailing list -- c'est la vie). Since I don't ever use Gnome or KDE, I don't care what they look like. I know many others do, good for them and I hope they're happy. http://www.monkeynoodle.org/Photos/screenshot.png/view is what makes me happy, and it's looked pretty much like that since Mandrake 8.0 with the exception of day and night and hurricanes :-). > > 3. With the RandR extension hopefully coming to the next release of I hereby register a vote of "I don't care." As long as I can read the scripts which configure things, and as long as the GUI ones include an option for ncurses output for remote management, that's all I care about. Oh, and if you must show GUI output, make sure that it's fast and doesn't make stupid mistakes like defining a window size in pixels. > 4. For me, the installer is looking outdated. So how hard is it to Don't care -- but, I do care a lot that I had to burn my own El Torito CD with network.img to do an install on a laptop with a firewire CD and no floppy drive (http://www.monkeynoodle.org/comp/vx88). The Mandrake disc 1 should be able to figure out some way to get onto a machine -- if it boots and realizes that it can't find the install media, then it should load network drivers and start looking for HTTP/NFS/FTP servers. > > 5. The package support really get me personally. Why do they bull :-) Mandrake seems to me to have a very clear goal, which is to be the best RPM-based distribution, with best defined as easiest-to-use, most-stable, and most polished. 9.0 is the first Linux distribution I've used which is worth the sticker price, and I can't believe it's a .0 release. Now for my suggestion: script clean up. There's some goofy plumbing going on in this bad boy -- it works, but it isn't religiously keeping data / code separation hygiene, and that's bad (see previous thread on /mnt/removable). Hopefully by 9.1 or 2 it'll be a lot easier to figure out where a mysterious mount-point name came from. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
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