Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 15, 2005 01:08 PM
Yes, and LG is such a minor manufacturer surely neither Mandrake nor any of its beta testers would had an opportunity to test on an LG drive. (Apologies for the sarcasm.) I wonder if Microsoft had behaved similarly, if you'd feel the same way. I know my opinion would be identical, in either case.
My real problem is this: Had this been the only Mandrake gaffe or one of relatively few (I'm thinking of both SuSE's and Red Hat's 7.0 series, for example), it would be one thing. But, until the advent of the "Community/Official" model, Mandrake releases have been pretty buggy -- and I'm not the only one who has had this experience. Couple this with ineptitude in delivering product to paying customers and a troubling pattern emerges.
I am an old time Mandrake user and have always wanted them to do well, but they've disappointed me at any number of turns. I sincerely hope MDK gets their act together, and it seems they are making progress. But, the old proverb stands: "People in glass houses shouldn't cast stones." While legitimate technical criticism is "fair game," it's immensely irritating when someone "cheap shots" the hard work (and in many ways superior work) of one distribution in favor of another that is just as flawed, if not moreso.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 15, 2005 01:08 PMMy real problem is this: Had this been the only Mandrake gaffe or one of relatively few (I'm thinking of both SuSE's and Red Hat's 7.0 series, for example), it would be one thing. But, until the advent of the "Community/Official" model, Mandrake releases have been pretty buggy -- and I'm not the only one who has had this experience. Couple this with ineptitude in delivering product to paying customers and a troubling pattern emerges.
I am an old time Mandrake user and have always wanted them to do well, but they've disappointed me at any number of turns. I sincerely hope MDK gets their act together, and it seems they are making progress. But, the old proverb stands: "People in glass houses shouldn't cast stones." While legitimate technical criticism is "fair game," it's immensely irritating when someone "cheap shots" the hard work (and in many ways superior work) of one distribution in favor of another that is just as flawed, if not moreso.
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