Hello Leon Brooks,
On Sun, 05 Nov 2000 13:05:50 +0800 GMT your local time,
which was Sunday, November 05, 2000, 12:05:50 PM (GMT+0700) my local time,
Leon Brooks wrote:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>>
>> So sprach Leon Brooks am Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 07:33:56PM +0800:
>> > Yah, MDK 7.2's update broke one of my systems very badly. Hand-repairing it took
>> How did it brake your system?
> brake == slow down / break == smash
> It didn't slow the system down, it rendered it unuseable.
> Amongst other things, it decided it had finished (no error message, just went to
> the next step after install-packages) when about 40% of the way along the little
> bar-graph. At that point it had switched on all manner of stuff in startup (nfs,
> linuxconf come to mind) not useful on that system and removed a few unimportant
> items... like network and inet for example. Made it kind of hard to ssh into the
> system.
> Emptied the font config file (so X couldn't find *any* fonts to work with).
> Time estimates were far from sane... never went above 10 minutes, even two hours
> into the update at about 30%, started out at 5 minutes and some seconds.
> That may seem bad, but I have a recent Windows-ME install to compare with... 15
> reboots, 4 of them planned, and still only fixed to problem temporarily. )-:
Leaving Mandrakes install aside, I dumped windows ME after 2 weeks as
it slowly got more and more corrupted and in the end I just dumped it.
Add many incompatible hardware / driver problems and ME just isnt
worth the headache. Asuming you want a MS product on that box, and
that its capable of running it, win2000 is by far superior compared to
ME.
(and no need to tell me that 2000 isnt any good, I need to run it on
one box for software which allas isnt available under Linux....)
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