daRcmaTTeR wrote: >On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Linux Maniac wrote: > >>I wonder what you'd like to implemented in the 9.0 release. My >>wishlist is in short: >> >>- a script for installing the nvidia drivers OR a deal with nvidia to >>provide them preinstalled in MDK 9.0 >>- Hungarian spell checkers >>- Opera 6.x >>- Mldonkey >>- Latest gtk-gnutella >>- Themable graphical boot >>- More KDE/Gnome themes >>- Support for Mustek ScanMagic 1200 (paralell) >>- Mozilla 1.1 >>- Mplayer >>- An advanced control center with more advanced options >>- winex and crossover office >>- preinstalled flash plugin >>- Maybe a gamer's extension 4th CD so on the first 3 CD there would be >>only serious programs and the games of kde/gnome >>- A more discrete and professional Mandrake look (icons, bootup, etc.) >>-Maybe a change of logo? >> >>BAT >> > >No! No soup for you!! >
Heh heh. This little Oliver would like Sony camcorder drivers LyX 2.0 Wine 1.0 A version of OpenOffice that loads in under a minute Turkish spellchecker ... and so on. But of course these are up to the to the program developers, not Mandrake. On the whole, I think Mandrake do a fairly good job of selecting apps which balance usefulness and stability. I don't want bleeding-edge stuff when I'm installing my system - I'll download those later at my own risk. Similarly, I don't want a load of themes, as a theme can be downloaded quickly, and I don't want them cluttering up my installation. As for flash and winex, these are proprietary or semi-proprietary programs that should be in the Powerpack but not the basic CD. The same would go for proprietary drivers. I don't mind sullying my system with the odd bit of proprietary software (e.g. I use nvidia's drivers) but I agree with the current policy of quarantining them - some people are fanatical about this. One idea I did think was good was a separate games CD. There are now a lot of Linux games around. Most of them are dissappointing, not so much through any fault of the developers, but because these days producing a decent game takes a lot of people and a lot of money (I once wrote a game for the Atari ZX81; OK, it sucked even by ZX81 standards, but the point is that if I'd been a better progammer and spent months rather than days, I could have produced a market leader - that isn't true now*). Put the games on a separate CD, then we can spend installation time on the serious stuff, then browse the games at our leisure. Sir Robin * There are of course honourable exceptions (Nethack Falcon's Eye springs to mind, plus a few nostaligic arcade games, but again the key word is nostalgia). Speaking of which, I'd pay any money for a Linux clone of Elite - not the yucky 16-colour DOS versions you can get from places like Abandonware, but the clean, aesthetic, wireframe graphics BBC Micro version. That's the only game I've played long enough to start hallucinating. > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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