(Posted from my corporate Windows machine because mail from my Mandrake / Evolution personal account is silently rejected by the cooker list... Why? ARRRGH.)
I also submitted some serious bug reports before RC1. As they never showed up on the mailing list I eventually sent them directly to Pixel and Warley. Of the 4 bugs I found (two serious) I only got a response regarding one of the minor cosmetic bugs in the installer. I appreciate the work that Mandrake does - I've paid my $60 to join the club - but this is not acceptable. If the reason was the hurry to get 8.2 out, well, the solution would be to NOT RUSH THE RELEASE. For the record, here are the two serious bugs again. My original bug reports were MUCH more detailed, but what's the point now... 1. The Beta 4 kernel hangs at "Detecting Partitions" when it reaches my 120 GB Maxtor drive, which has a single 120GB ReiserFS primary partition. This prevents installation. I can work around this by unplugging that drive during installation, compiling and installing my own kernel from kernel.org, and then reconnecting the drive, rebooting, and editing /etc/fstab... I can do all that in my sleep, but Joe Average User sure couldn't. 2. On a machine with two sound cards, a Sound Blaster Live! and an M-Audio Audiophile 2496, the (Beta 4) Mandrake installer correctly identifies both cards and "sort of" sets up sound. Unfortunately, NEITHER sound card works in the resulting configuration. Nothing works - no mixers, no sound playback, no ALSA apps, nada. Again, fixed by upgrading to a custom-compiled 2.4.18 + ALSA 0.9 - now both sound cards work. Again - I can do this but average user sure can't. These are serious bugs and I got NO response about them. I hope these bugs were fixed for release. I downloaded and burned RC1 just to test but ran out of time, as 8.2 was released so quickly. What's the rush? It just doesn't make sense to have a release candidate out for less than two weeks! Volunteer testers like me, working on our own time need several days to download and burn the ISOs and run our tests, it is very discouraging to be part way through this and then find out there is no point, 8.2 is being released anyway. Bah. I was hoping that 8.2 would be the first Linux distribution that I could just install and run on all my machines, but it looks like once again, I will have to start from 8.2 and then update the kernel, ALSA, and who knows how many other things before it will be usable. Sigh. What was the rush for 8.2 release??? I still haven't seen a good explanation of that. Disappointed... Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
