LM 7.2 and beyond (part 2) (http://forum.mandrakesoft.com/article.php3?sid=20001019091828) Two days ago I asked your opinions about linux: where we are, what is good, what is bad, where should we go etc. Well, I got what I asked for: 71 answer so far. I'll try to summarize what You said so far, as a base for further discussion: First there were people who are basically asking to do exactly what we did so far: Keep all the packages up-to-date Add cool new programs to distro get rid of junk progs (WE NEED YOUR HELP HERE!) Offer our judgement on which programs should be installed, but let the user have the last word. Make instalation and usage easier Support more hardware Fix the bugs, close security holes Improve documentation Make servers easier to use too, not only Desktop machines (we just started doing this) Then there were people asking better support for particular class of devices or better integration of particular programs: Faxing USB, DVD, scanners, digital cameras other PDA-s (Psion) nettalk support wine configuration. There was some (rather light) cryticism of several points: bad ISDN support (this should be fixed in 7.2) neglecting the FAX software not uniform enough Too many programs doing the same thing Config programs do not tell you what they do. package selection during install is too much work to do. Some people wanted us to do impossible things like offering some commercial programs for free, solving DVD support problem (folks, this is political, not technical problem. We can not do much here, it is something you should do!), or basing the distro on closed-source code Others were asking for already existing features, or for features we just introduced in 7.2. I'll make sure to inform you better in the future... And finaly, there were few people who offered completely new ideas on what to do: Sell merchantising Pay someone to make some good UNICODE fonts Publish upgrade-packs instead of new distros. I hope I didn't forget anything important. If I did, please tell me and I will update this page. I intend to use it as a reference in further discussion.
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