And whenever a good enough change comes along, I will buy it thus supporting
the Mandrake infrastructure. I'm not into this "new version every 6 months"
thing, but when there is fundamental improvement (functionality or reduction
of (install) problems, etc.) I will vote my approval with money.
There are disadvantages to being too quick. XFree 4.0 bombed on my
system, and shortly thereafter 4.0.1 came out fixing some problems. I know
that this is a continuous process, but I wonder if Mandrake is sometimes too
cutting edge. The "bathtub curve" is a functional reality. And the pioneers
are the ones with the arrows in their backs. Dumb cliches that echo a basic
truth.
-Gary-
In a message dated 10/26/2000 9:08:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> I'd also like to point out just how hard the Mandrake
> developers work to keep Mandrake the most up to date distro. As
> evidenced by the speed with which they got the kde 2.0 rpms out, and
> that they're workin hard thru the night to tweak and upgrade them,
> I'm sure the 7.2 final in a few days will be the biggest jump in
> performance and 'slickness', any distro has seen in some time. It's
> a shame they don't make any money off of cheap CD's or downloads.
> I'll prob'ly get the final 7.2 Cd's from lsl.com or cheapbytes, but
> i've made up my mind to send Mandrake a donation. They ought'a sell
> the cheap CD's themselves. I'd buy from them even if they wanted
> twice+ what cheapbytes/lsl wants.
> --
> Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
<Snip>
I would have to agree hole heartedly on the last point. I have tried almost
every flavor that I can think of.... including FreeBSD, Red Hat, Corel, and
Caldera and I would have to say that this is by far the best kept package for
installation support and just all around functionality that there is our
there! I applaud the Mandrake crew and everyone on this list for there
outstanding efforts.
Regards
Mike Freeman
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