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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lyvim Xaphir
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 10:40 AM
To: NewbieMandrake-List
Subject: [newbie] Influence and help LM91 NOW
Take note: LM91 beta 1 is now out on some mirrors. Now is the time to
start testing YOUR hardware and configurations. It's a prime
opportunity for you to make 9.1 friendly to your own personal hardware,
and in so doing a real world killer distro. Please read the following
repost from Sascha Noyes concerning
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From: Sascha Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital
Date: 22 Dec 2002 07:17:50 -0500
> On Sunday 22 Dec 2002 12:35 am, Joseph Braddock wrote:
> > Jerry,
> >
> > Maybe you would be willing to contribute some of your time to improve
> > Mandrake's stability. There were numerous beta and release candidates
> > for Mandrake 9.0. If you are having stability issues, the time to have
> > them fixed is prior to the release being official. When Mandrake 9.1 is
> > in beta and release candidate status, maybe you can download a copy (or
> > buy one from cheapbytes) and submit the problems you've been experiencing
> > to the development team.
> >
> > This is by no means an effort to slam you, it's simply that if we want
> > the distro to work flawlessly and support all kinds of hardware
> > combinations, then the more who join the testing effort the better.
>>>>>>>snip<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Mandrake have made a huge step forward with bugzilla in the last week or two.
I would suggest to everyone who has an interest in the stability/excellence
of 9.1 to make an account at https://qa.mandrakesoft.com. The feature that
would be most useful to newbies is voting for bugs. If you are too
intimidated in posting a new bug or comment on an exitant bug (which you
shouldn't be), you can simply search for all unconfirmed bugs, and if you are
experiencing them as well, you can vote for them. After two votes, a bug is
marked "new", and the more votes a bug receives, the more attention it will
get (and face it that is what you need for 'your' bug in the beta process).
The process to see unconfirmed bugs is to click "Query existing bug reports",
and then change the status field to "unconfirmed" and just do a search
without any other parameters.
Good luck,
Sascha Noyes
