On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 22:29, Rob wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 01:11, Leon Brooks wrote: > > FYI; Scott runs a local Linux retail business and consultancy > > Subject: [plug] Mandrake Bug announce warning rant ahead > > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:58 > > From: Scott Middleton <DESPAMMED> > > <rant> > > I am pissed off.. > > Has anyone seen an official announcement to the Mandrake users > > that using their latest and greatest will completely stuff > > their CDROM? I don't care that it is not their fault. I don't > > I was all set to reply to this mail with "You're full of it, the > distro hasn't even shipped yet and it was all over > Mandrakeclub", but.... > > It wasn't. > > Turns out the only reason I know about this is because I > subscribed to cooker in preparation for submitting my own RPM's > to contrib. I would have eventually seen the article on > slashdot or the register about it, but by then I would have > tried to install it on a client's machine that had been > earmarked for Mandrake 9.2 and which, indeed, had an LG CD-ROM > drive in it. > > What worries me more is that this was discovered after 9.2 had > "gone gold" and presumably been stamped on aluminum and boxed > for sending out to retail stores.... and replacing CD's (or > worse yet, orchestrating a recall) will cost money that Mandrake > couldn't need more right now. Worse still would be if this got > into the channel and someone with an axe to grind decided to sue > Mandrake for knowingly selling something that would destroy > equipment, however cheap the equipment may be... in some > jurisdictions this would probably be legal no matter what the > EULA or the GPL says. > > I wish I could be a little more constructive here, but all I can > come up with is "do better next time, guys." Not that I want > there to be a "next time" as far as blowing up out-of-spec > Korean drives goes, but I certainly hope to see Mandrake 10.0 > sometime next year. > > Rob > >
In all due fairness it's been at the top of the errata page for quite a while. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#badlg Note that Slashdot pclinuxonline and others found out about it by point to this page. James
