Op dinsdag 12 maart 2002 05:01, schreef u: > On Monday 11 March 2002 23:52, Brad Felmey wrote: > > On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 12:03, SI Reasoning wrote: > >> Don't be in such a rush! I feel it is much more > >> important to work through all of these fixes and > >> release the most stable version possible. > >> > >> Personally, I think it is VERY important to have > >> things work out of the box. > > > > <snip> > > > >> Especially businesses, who are taking the > >> hardest look at Mandrake (for both servers and as a > >> desktop) > > > > I second this. I'm pinning a lot of hope on Mdk 8.2 for desktop > > duty at work for our programmers. > > I third this. 8.0 and 8.1, despite having loads more useful features (like > ext3 and mod_dav) and up-to-date applications (like ethereal and KOffice), > also had some significant things which did not work well (or usually at > all) out of the box, like Broadcast 2000 and WINE. > > I would *much* rather that significant things like this worked well > *OUT*OF*THE*BOX* (ie, no recompiles, no adding of Windows libraries etc) > than have it look nicer or be released earlier, impatient as I am to get my > hands on a nice neat package full of shiny new toys. > > Also, the whole Open Source community benefits from the close inspections > that their applications suffer during intense Cookering. > > Cheers; Leon
You can't ask that notepad works in wine. That would be something to hard to ask.
