Re: Torrent for RC1

On March 29, 2005 10:19 pm, patrick_darcy wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 March 2005 08:54 pm, Marc Lijour wrote:
> > On March 29, 2005 06:24 pm, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> > > Le mercredi, 30 mar 2005, à 00:09 Europe/Paris, Marc Lijour a écrit :
> > > >> Is there any torrent for RC1?
> > > >
> > > > I haven't seen one and I got directed to a ftp site (see previous
> > > > email about
> > > > that).
> > >
> > > Hmm, Torrents for Club Edition CD and DVD should be available by now.
> > > It just wasn't announced yet. That ought to be fixed tomorrow, well, in
> > > the next hours. ;-) They were available on the primary server at the
> > > same time as Download Edition.
>
> im not blaming anyone in the cooker but this kind of mistake
> is what makes me so angry with mandrake. there is appartently
> a dvd verson of the release candidate and nobody and i mean
> nobody checked to see if it was out so that it could be used.

I don't blame Mandrake but I regret the situation.
Reading the posts on this list for some weeks now I realize that there are 
pretty knowledgeable people here. I don't see as much contribution though as 
we have in our LUG. I would like to contribute more and I know it is 
difficult for many reasons (one of them being expertise, another time). But 
my point is that if we'd build some nucleus of an active community here it 
would surely attract Mandrake's attention. (right now we may be seen as a 
bunch of isolated weirdo users :-)

Eh, after all this list is a cooker list too, why so few movement about 
packages, patches, debug, etc. If we are not interested as users why should 
Mandrake care then?


> this is nothing than very very poor business practices.
> u cant survive with mistakes like this.
as a business it would be difficult, but see my point above. A business needs 
clients ...

my .02c