Mandrake actually supports it's official version. People that buy this stuff in corporations, like me for instance, don't want to be in the position of getting screwed out of updates or getting sold a beta POS.
The community version I think will be more robust over time. If it really is a community, that is. Just look at Debian, or any other non-corp driven distro. It's not a bad thing. I like it actually. It's easy to bankrupt 1 corporation- nearly impossible to bankrupt 5 million individuals.
Personally, I wanna run 2.6.1+ at home, and get 20MB/s off my usb hard drive and attach all kinds of worthless yet pointless gadgets to it- which 2.4 isn't ever gonna support. So, I think it's a fair deal. We fix our own bugs along with Mandrake, and we pay them for hand holding and packaging it all together nicely. Not too hard to grasp, and not a bad way to help people get linux at home or work.
Yep, maybe now their official released version won't have as many bugs as previous. More time is good for corporate releases. Hard to iron out bugs when you have 3 officially starving frenchman working at Walmart and rushing through 5000 bugzilla reports. Essentially as it stands now, 9.2=community. The corporate release will be the new animal here. Despite what Francois says.. or whatever his name is.
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Posted by: ThoreauHD on January 23, 2004 01:30 PMThe community version I think will be more robust over time. If it really is a community, that is. Just look at Debian, or any other non-corp driven distro. It's not a bad thing. I like it actually. It's easy to bankrupt 1 corporation- nearly impossible to bankrupt 5 million individuals.
Personally, I wanna run 2.6.1+ at home, and get 20MB/s off my usb hard drive and attach all kinds of worthless yet pointless gadgets to it- which 2.4 isn't ever gonna support. So, I think it's a fair deal. We fix our own bugs along with Mandrake, and we pay them for hand holding and packaging it all together nicely. Not too hard to grasp, and not a bad way to help people get linux at home or work.
Yep, maybe now their official released version won't have as many bugs as previous. More time is good for corporate releases. Hard to iron out bugs when you have 3 officially starving frenchman working at Walmart and rushing through 5000 bugzilla reports. Essentially as it stands now, 9.2=community. The corporate release will be the new animal here. Despite what Francois says.. or whatever his name is.
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