Joseph Braddock wrote:
Whilst I support the thesis of your argument, may I point out it is extreme;y difficult for
I have to say I'm middle-of-the-road here. I bought my distros and was
happy with 8.2. However, I'm NOT happy with 9.0. If 9.0 is all they can do
with the money I paid spent, then no, I'm not going to continue investing
money in a company who seems to be following in the footsteps of microsoft
when it comes to releasing something whether it's ready or not, and IMHO,
9.0 was not ready to be released. In fact, my 2nd machine which I've been
fighting with using 9.0 will be downgrading back to 8.2 some time this
weekend. Another thing is for sure, when future versions are released I'm
definitely going to wait and watch the forums/lists before shelling out 70
bucks again. I was so happy with 8.2 that I bought 9.0 as soon as it was on
the shelf thinking it would be even better but that does not seem to be the
case, unfortunately. I'm just waiting for the day when Debian steps up to a
2.4 kernel. I'm getting comfortable enough with gnu/linux that I'm ready to
make a switch from a distro that's "easy to use" to one that emphasizes
stability. IMO having apps freeze and crash doesn't seem very "easy to
use." If I want that, I'll go back to M$.
Now if Mandrake were to turn around with 9.1 and go back to the quality of
8.2, I'd sing its praises once again.
the likes of myself to actually complete a download and then submit an experience to
mandrake, a) because there is never enough time to do it before the next release,
b) Us mortals dont' have access to report problems without going to
a lot of trouble joining the cooker brigade, whose technical expertise is far in excess
of ours.
As a matter of note, it takes 3 times 5days to download one 3cd mandrake set.
So if this is to change more time and some easy way of reporting problems is needed.
John
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