On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:46:31 +0000 Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you underestimate Mandrake and their ability to learn from > past errors. While it's true that earlier releases initially had > problems, 9.0 has undergone very extensive testing, including three > betas, and two or three RCs. And instead of pushing to release bugware > on the initial release date of Sept. 13, they chose to put it off > until they could hammer out as many bugs as possible. And since it's > release a couple weeks ago, how many updates have been made available? > I've seen two, maybe three. > > Don't get me wrong; I'm sure not everything is perfect. But I'm > perfectly confident that installing 9.0 on a primary machine is not > the Armageddon you describe.
And, also, the number of possible hardware combinations is to all effects and purposes infinite; no practical, or even possible, number of beta testers could possibly test any more than an infinitesimal area of the "hardware space". The miracle, given the amount of cooperation there generally is from hardware vendors*, is that it works at all! Just to add my 2 pence worth, I have one machine on which paid work is done, ran all betas and release clients (and was a poor beta tester because it's an 18-month-old machine and largely "just worked") and am now doing a cooker update every Saturday. Why? Because, by inspection, Mandrakesoft can be trusted to keep things working for what I do. I would never dare replace large chunks of anybody else's operating system each week on a sole machine ;) Alastair * I've just acquired an old Dell laptop (CPi D266XT) with a semi-ruined installation of Windows 95 and want to replace it with Mandrake once I've put 128MB of memory in. I came across a very abrupt statement somewhere from Neomagic (graphics chipset vendors) stating that no drivers would be produced for Linux and there would be no release whatsoever of information to third parties. The miracle is ...
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