Re: [cobalt-users] RAQ4 OSUpdate 2

[baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Bruce Timberlake wrote:

> baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Michael Gabriel wrote:
> >
> > > too many, time for os update 2.1 !
> > > cobalt is getting very slow with updates, havent they sold
> > > enough raq4s?
> > > since the constantly bad updates we are running a spare raq
> > > just to test them. i'm sure others are to, how about a beta
> > > tester program sun ?
> >
> > There have been numerous requests to Cobalt/Sun to start such a
> > program...but it appears to be another common sense idea that's
> > ignored.
>
> Not true.

Don't want to argue, and I won't name names here, but I personally
have requested fixes, explanations, improvements and have volunteered
as a beta tester for those items.  All I got was a "maybe".

>
> There are no resources to run a beta testing program for patches and
> updates, and IMHO, that stuff should all be done internally anyway.

Sigh...it may just be me...but it seems that with almost every patch,
update there's some little niggly "feature" that affects even standard
installations.

Thom