Once again, people want the world.
I agree, a version optomized for each flavor of processor would be nice.
But given Mandrakesofts current fiscal condition, what would you be willing to give up to get it? The only have (n) number of people, and (x) resources to throw at it.
How about some community support?
How about forming a community project to recompile the distro with Athlon XP, and Athlon MP optimizations?
Why not another community project to build an i686 optomized verion?
etc...
Just a suggestion.
Ric
flacycads wrote:
My main complaint (really about the only one) about Mandrake is that
they apparently refuse to issue an Athlon-XP optimized version for retail
sales, or download. However, at least you can rebuild the srpms yourself. But really, how hard can it be to recompile the entire distro for different architectures like Gentoo does, and post the iso's with an "unsupported"
disclaimer, if need be? IMO, they will loose a lot of users if they
don't. Otherwise, Mandrake is a great distro, but the bottom line is a lot of
users won't even consider distros that only put out i586 optimized versions
(or less) anymore. After all, fewer and fewer users are even running i586 hardware these days. Mandrake needs to get with the times.
Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 12:15 pm, Tibbetts, Ric wrote:
All; I've been watching all the threads, and excitement over the upcoming 9.1. As well as the critisizm over the rushed release dates.
Just to add my .02 to it:
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