On Sunday 22 September 2002 09:32 am, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, SI Reasoning wrote: > > I have heard this argument before but don't buy it. I am not talking > > about waiting years here... Just taking the time to release the product > > when it is ready instead of forcing a deadline. Mandrake 8.2 was released > > despite a known serious issue with smb with the kernel. > > That bug was also picked up in final beta or the RC, which of course meant > too little time to reliably fix. Plus, initial bug reports were very bad, > and the bug difficult to reproduce. > > FYI, SuSE also shiped with the same bug, and maybe RH did too (can't > reproduce, so I can't check for sure). > > > That was something that definately should have been fixed > > before release. This is not to say you don't aim for a deadline, but even > > Microsoft will fearlessly delay release, often for months. > > If Mandrakesoft had $30 billion in cash in the bank, they would also have > this luxury. We all can remember buggy releases from MS, even when they > had approximately this luxury (show me one laptop running win98se that > shuts down reliably all its life).
Hell, windows xp doesn't shut down right half the time. Not to mention that it constantly has driver problems on my machine. -- -- Igor
