[svlug] Mandrake 8 beta thoughts

[Dagmar d'Surreal]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Rick Moen wrote:

> The point of my earlier post was that there were some fairly decent
> reasons at the time, though one can argue with details of how it was
> packaged and numbered -- and, of course, one can maintain (as you are,
> here) that they should have just waited.  But others would counter that
> we'll be seeing a usable 2.95.3 sooner than we would have otherwise.
> It's a debatable matter, and I'm inclined to cut them some slack.  
> 
> Of course, that doesn't mean I choose to join the pioneering types
> trying to _use_ that stuff -- which is a different question.

I don't blame you at all on that front.  I have definitely blown a LOT of
time in the last six months trying to spot another plateau of stability
to use for creating a new base installation image.

...now if Gnome will just settle down and stop exhibiting different bugs
based on the day of the week you boot your machine and the phase of the
moon at compile time, I'll be a happy man.  :)