On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 02:13:46 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:23, Olivier Blin wrote: >> > > All other thinkpad's I have heard of do very well, most >> > > users I have encountered had no problems enabling acpi, all NTFS resizes >> > > I have done worked fine. Most users probably also miss the >> > > thinkpad-specific features in contrib, such as tpb, and in cooker they >> > > will probably miss tpctl and tp4utils. >> > >> > I don't think he knows what contrib is. >> >> Lots of Mandrake users don't know what are contrib and plf. >> It would be good to show a description of contrib or plf at the end of the install >> or at the first boot in Mandrake, and ask the user if he want to run urpmi.setup to >> add more media and so have more packages. >> We could also tell users that it is safer to install packages from contrib or plf >> than from other sources because they are tested by lots of user. > > I'm surprised no-one's replied to this. Olivier, Mandrakesoft couldn't > possibly link to PLF in any official way whatsoever, because the whole > point of PLF is it has no official links with Mandrakesoft and is not a > Mandrakesoft endeavour. This is because it includes stuff - principally > dvdcss, but other stuff too - that could potentially get any substantial > company involved in distributing it into *extremely* deep shit. So the > chances of a PLF link / info during install are somewhere between > non-existent and really, really non-existent :). Info on contrib would > be a good idea, though.
PLF, what it PLF ? I've never heared of it :)) -- Frederic Crozat MandrakeSoft
