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Tibbetts, Ric wrote on Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:15:56PM -0500 :
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> Mandrake on the other hand, insists on trying to match Redhats release
> schedule, but they're including major content changes in a point
> release, and they're beating themselves up trying to keep up.
Mandrake releases X.0, X.1, X.2. Then it jumps to Y.0, Y.1, Y.2. It
has nothing to do with "point" releases or "version" releases.
Technically, they are ALL "version" releases.
> But I still see them making the same mistakes. Rushed releases, with too
> much content change to be controlable in such short cycles. They're
Back around the time of 6.x, there was one CD for Main and one CD for
Contrib. Now all of Main won't fit on three CD's, and Contrib is about
the same.
IMHO, if there has been any one failure of Mandrake, it's been the
inability to say "No, we won't put that in Main." The attempt to be
everything to everybody requires more manpower than we have, resulting
in everybody pulling 60-80 hour weeks trying to get things to a cohesive
point.
> Yup, I understand that they're trying to meet with a competitive market,
> and meet customer demands. But... The customer is ALWAYS going to want
> the latest & greatest software, whether it's stable or not. And THEY
> WANT IT STABLE. Well, it can't always be done. Mandrake needs to learn
> when to say no.
You're approaching it from a slightly different angle, but you arrive at
nearly the same conclusion.
> The general feel about Mandrake around the people, and companies I work
> around is not good. If a Linux box is built, it's Redhat. Why? Stable
> releases, Stable company.
Yes, in the US, RedHat is the brand that's known and that's what we're
trying to address.
Blue skies... Todd
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