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Mandrake Linux Development Process Changes
joestar writes "Just found at MandrakeLinux.com: 'MandrakeSoft today announced a major evolution in the way that future Mandrake Linux distributions will be engineered and released. The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products.' In short: for each release, there will be a 'Community' release, equivalent to a common Mandrake release, with all latest features. Several months later an 'Official' release - based on the 'Community' - will be available. Both of them will be released publicly and supported. The new process will start with the upcoming Mandrake 10.0."
A Business plan based on the actual Open Source community instead of just their products. Wow. I may weep openly.
Joe
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They could do something way far out there and call the community release something like a "beta version", and, well... you get the idea
Translation from Long Marketingspeak: We'll take Cooker and freeze it, and then a couple months later, after we've fixed everything, it will be released. By which time it will be completely outdated, of course...and you won't be able to install (insert KDE or GNOME package here) because it needs version 3.4.2.5.34, not 3.4.2.5.33...you'll have to wait for the NEXT release(which will be unusable of course until -it- is sorted) to get .34....
Boy, they're right, that does sound nicer :-)
Please help metamoderate.
Red Hat is just leaving its users alone...
Yes, leaving them alone. By hosting servers, paying employees to work on Fedora, and spending lots of other money on the project.
I feel so alone. Hold me.
The purpose of this new development process is to provide the highest level of new features, as well as maximizing the quality of new products.
I'm glad this was clarified. One might have thought the opposite.
I said it before, and I say it again:
No way I'm going to enter bills for Mandrake Club Services from a French company into my books.
I do not want to explain to the accountant and the taxman that Mandrake Club is not a parisian brothel.
For gods sake, choose a professional, if boring, name.
It would be nice if you gathered a bit of knowledge before you exhibited how ignorant you really are.
To begin: it was the sharp new management that came in and began a buying binge that put Mandrake into a dangerous financial position. This group too was pulling Mandrake from their Linux roots. Only after returning to the original lead and those roots did its financial status and product quality improve. Moreover, Mandrake moved from loses into a profit this past quarter.
Since you are using the SCO model to critique: it was SCO that was closed source that bought the more or less open source company and has been hell on wheels since then.
Get a few facts straight before blowing off on your preconcieved ideas. It would make reading the comments here from all sides easier to take.
What gets you stoked about Linux? The price tag? Quality? Security? or the fact that it isn't M$.
I'd like to answer that question: Yes.
You, or the one he told?
The French press release is obviously a translation of the original Humricun English. And not a very good one at that.
:-)
Mais a partir de maintenant, une seconde version "solide comme du roc"...
Hell, if I had put a translation like this in an assignement my English teacher would have skinned me alive !
Think of a L'Oreal effect here. What do you think came first, "Because I'm worth it" or "Parce que je le vaux bien" ?
Only difference is, you don't get the sexy Laetitia Casta shots as a bonus - yet
Thomas Miconi