On Sunday 02 November 2003 06:21 pm, robin wrote: > Curt Tresenriter wrote: > > ARS Technica had a complaining piece about 9.2 > > > > http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html > > Does anyone have anything positive to say about 9.2? My own impression
This is my post from PCLinuxOnline on this topic: The problem with this article is that he makes the claim that 9.2 is "just bad," but the only given in evidence to support it relates to community squabbling. The only technical point he raises is the LG issue, which is clearly not Mandrake's fault (although many do blame them for it). What else is wrong with it that makes it so bad. The squabbling on the bittorrent thing was a few malcontents being very vocal. Much of it was by people that just didn't want to use it, as opposed to those that could not. And for those that couldn't, authenticated ftp was offered. Nearly 7500 people completed the download via bittorrent. My experience: 1) The packaging is better than 9.0 or 9.1 by far. I say this because I have been able to rebuild the entire distro for athlon architecture without fixing any spec files. Not so with 9.0 and 9.1. 2) upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 went super smooth with urpmi. 3) look and feel is excellent, crisp and professional 4) It's nice to see them actually fixing bugs (referring to the flood of updates). This pattern started with 9.1, with a bunch of bug fixes coming out just before the boxed sets arrived. I think this is a deliberate strategy on their part to make sure the buyers of the boxed sets have as bug-free release as possible. I have said in the past and I'll say again, their problems have much more to do with their communication than it does with the quality of the distro. Every release has niggles and bugs, some worse than others. Somehow there is a negativity that reigns supreme with Mandrake watchers. I just don't get why people feel such a need to bash MandrakeSoft. Sometimes it just seems that nothing they do is right. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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