020909 Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 20:12, Buchan Milne wrote:
>> AFAIK, this option (3d acceleration for 3.x)
>> only appears in an expert install off the GPL edition,
>> so IMHO, the user asked to be treated like an expert.
>> "Experimental" should be good enough?
> Ah, in that case it's less of an issue - wasn't aware of that, sorry.
> Experimental, hmm, well, in a more casual universe
> i'd replace it with "Bloody useless" ;)

as the subscriber who first raised this, i can only agree with 1st-time AW.
there are degrees of expertise, very wide ones:
i've been using Mandrake for  2 years  ( 6.1 , 8.0 briefly, 8.2 , 9.0rc1 ),
but i have no idea what the strengths or weaknesses of 3.3.6 & 4.2.0 are.
this is really one of those bits of ancient history
which continue to lie around in the installation script:
it's time the developers gave the script a quick review & cleaned them up.

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