Re: Strategy

[Kevin Forge <forge@forge.kfs>]

JF Martinez wrote:
> 
> >
> > >The question I am asking myself if it we should announce our goals now
> > >jointly with the distrib as is, or with th distrib + the X accelerator
> > >for the thrilling effect (but problem is that pergaps we play our ace
> > >too soon), or if we wait until the verion based on 6.1.
> >
> >    Announcement should go with the X accelerator, at least.  As for the 6.1,
> > how long are we talking?  If it will be ready before Halloween, Why not
> > announce it all at once on the 31st?  Good time to tie into the Mickysoft
> > documents. :-)  <that was a serious PR tie, by the way>
> >
> > >By the way would it be better to base upon RedHat or Mandrake 6.1?
> >
> >    I vote Red Hat.  Mandrake does some drive optimizations that are twitchy.
> > We are going for ease of install, not performance.  Mandrake makes that
> > trade the other way in several places.
> >
> 
> Mandrake's 6.0 hdparms optimizations were made by Bernhard
> Rozenkraentz (BeroLInux's author) and (according to what Mandrake's
> boss told me) were made without the consent of his supervisor.
> Mandrake's boss told me they had been withdrawn from 6.1 and Berhard
> left Mandrake (he is now at RedHat subsidiary in germany :-)
> 
> However I have seen a trivail program freezing in Mandrake and become
> unkillable (not even with -9) and this was the first time I have seen
> a such thing in Linux.  and I wonder if that could not be due to some
> dubious patch or to the fact the kernel was probably compiled with
> PGGC despite kernel people recommendations and the fact it is a lot
> greener than plain GCC.

This I have seen on Mandrake 6.1  
Some of the KDE-2.0 CVS apps from about 3 weeks ago refused to die
and that scared me no end.