On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 00:21, Leon Brooks wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 12:02 am, Pierre Fortin wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 08:57:24 -0500 Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> According to distrowatch Mandrake 9.1 beta1 is out on some mirrors. > > Glad to see it a little earlier. > > > This is NOT a support request for 9.0 -- > > it is a list of reasons I have been VERY unhappy with 9.0 (the product of > > cooker)... I've been a devoted Mandrake fan, advocate and supporter since > > 6.1; but if 9.1 is of similar "quality", I will have redo the distro > > evaluation that led me to Mandrake in the first place. > > Agree. I think 9.1 should be heavily focussed on *fixing* existing stuff, save > the new features for 9.2 as much as possible. Mandrake has a reputation for > being easy to use, but not one for extreme stability (despite the fact that I > personally have had no issues with that). Rock-solid stability is more useful > than any amount of shiny new features. > > SuperMount needs fixing with a lead bee. > > Leaving kdeartwork out of 9.0 was not clever. Putting it into the updates > would have been smart, a missed opportunity. Extra testing after things had > been rearranged for the commercial cut might have prevented this. > > Fixing urpmi so that modem users are spared the megabyte or two of indexes > every time they want to consider updating would be good. Offering to > automatically update when they dialled on would then be good, although I > would also offer to defer the update for (say) 30 minutes after they dialled, > to make sure mail had arrived and the browsing the user had eagerly started > when they clocked on was basically over. > > Fixing a gazillion and one weird dependency issues in the installer would be > good (I've seen no end of I-turned-this-off-but-it-installed-anyway complaint > here and elsewhere). A package granularity similar to Debian would be a noble > goal. > > A more formal approach to the Contrib files would be good. I'd like to see a > single-ISO desktop-sufficient distro, plus 2 more ISOs full of > common/existing stuff, plus 2more ISOs labelled `contrib' for the > adventurous. > > One thing I would really like to see *** for 9.2 *** is a bootable CD like > Knoppix, which can then install the running image (optionally allowing the > installer to complicate the partition layout) and work as normal with the > standard CD set. > > Yes, I know I'm up to a total of 6 ISOs here, but the approach means you can > release the downloadable stuff in stages: main ISO, supporting ISOs, > boot-and-run ISO, contribs. I don't know how this impacts the pressed stuff > since I don't know your manufacturer's system.
I agree with every bit of this email, well said. tjfontaine
