On Mon, 03 Mai 1999, you wrote: / Am Mon, 03 Mai 1999 schrieben Sie:
> Tom Berger wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 03 Mai 1999, you wrote: / Am Mon, 03 Mai 1999 schrieben Sie:
> > > Tom Berger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 03 Mai 1999, you wrote: / Am Mon, 03 Mai 1999 schrieben Sie:
> > > > > I just saw this release in comp.os.linux.announce and thought people
> > > > > might be interested. If you haven't bought the Mandrake PowerPack or
> > > > > GPL distribution yet, now might be a good time! Circadian is offering a
> > > > > free upgrade to Mandrake v6 when it's released (they say mid-May).
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.ccsoft.cc/software/linux/6now.html
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Steve Philp
> > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > > Hmrg,
> > > > I can't help being more and more annoyed by Mandrake's announcement policy
> > > > (or better: it's non-existence). This is Linux, it's us, not some dumb
> > > > user flock like MS-customership. Debian looks more promising every day...
> > > > BTW: this seems to become a common attitude. Did someone here noticed the
> > > > hassle about KDE 1.1.1 in the last week? They announced the release
> > > > in freshmeat on Tue, but withdraw the release the next day from the
> > > > servers. No word about that on the KDE news page. GNOME isn't better. I am
> > > > still waiting for an apology on their web site for their crappy '1.0'
> > > > release.
> > >
> > > Well, pre-announcing releases has always been crappy behavior from
> > > commercial vendors, so I'm happy that Linux distributors haven't taken
> > > up the practice, truthfully.
> > >
> >
> > So where did ccsoft get its information from? If there will be a new
> > version of Mandrake soon, who should be the first to know: the vendors or
> > the users? As far as I remember there is an announcement list (I am even
> > subscribed to it, but've never got any announcements...). This is Open
> > Source (tm), and I think that should apply to information, too.
>
> Dear Tom,
>
> Don't worry, users will be the first to know the availability of the next
> version. We are just waiting to put a beta on Internet to make the
> announcement.
> CCsoft was just asking when the next 6.0 will be available and i answer him
> "soon".
>
> Jacques
Ah thanks,
just hoped my whining here would provoke some reaction *bg*.
Regards
tom
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