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Author: Raymond Cantwell
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Subject: Crappy Products Cost More!!
Tom Achtenberg wrote:

>I agree the RH problem is management. KDE's web site doesn't name him but does state the a RH employee makes the rpm's on his own time.
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>I believe it is 1.3 Java that I have installed. At least the up2date says my system is 100% up to date (in their eyes anyway.) I have iso's from Mandrake from early April. ver 8.1 I think. Does Mandrake have anything like the up2date service? If so I may go that direction this weekend.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kurt Granroth [mailto:kurt@granroth.org]
>Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:02 PM
>To:
>Subject: Re: Crappy Products Cost More!!
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>On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:58 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
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>>Would you settle for a product that is 70 to 80% complete? How about if
>>they left off one tire on your car? Bernard's attitude is a horrible
>>example of bad customer service. (If what you report is accurate.)
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>To cut Bero a bit of slack, he creates the RPMs on his own time (mostly).
>RedHat gives him next to no support internally.
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>Not that that excuses RedHat at all...
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>As for your java issues with Konqueror, it depends on what version of Java
>you are using. You need java 1.3 or better (the IBM version works great
>for me). Java support in the upcoming 3.1 (not due until this Fall) is
>*much* improved over the 3.0.x series as well.
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>

mandrake has mandrake update. It seems to be fairly good, i have been
running 8.2 for about a month and a half and my system is current.
Ray