Hi Guillaume, > > 4.) I'm not sure if this was just because there weren't any security > > updates or not, but I did not receive a prompt to check for upgrades > > during the install process. > > Strange, in every install I've done so far, it asked for it. > > Can you send the file /root/report.bug ?
Sure, I will send it privately though since it's just under 300 kb. > As of kde-3.0, I may be wrong but it seems that there is only > little to hope from the user side, between kde-2.2.2 and kde-3.0, > isn't it? From what I've seen of it, that would be correct UI-wise, but it is binary incompatible with kde-2.x applications since it is based on QT3 (so any KDE 2.x apps would have to be removed/upgraded at the time of upgrading to KDE-3.0 unless it was some how installed without removing KDE2/QT2). The main reason I bring this up, is that I know around KDE 2.0's release, a lot of people were rather frustrated that by the time the latest release of SuSE started showing up in stores (7.0, mid-September 2000), they had to download 50 megs of software, and many of the applications included in the system ceased to function or had to be removed because of dependancy problems. > Actually we're trying hard to look "more professional" and the > design team decided that this more "traditional" and "less > eye-candy" design looks more professional. I can see where you are coming from. Is that why the console login screens with the ASCII-art version of Tux have been removed, btw? I guess we can't have any fun anymore, huh? ;-) Seriously, I'm very impressed with Mandrake's overall "professional" feel. That's part of what won me over from SuSE, along with your great utilities such as urpmi. > Is it functional? Last time (that was rather long ago) I talked > with Kevin P. Lawton, he said that the design of Bochs made it > practically unusable for real-life emulation since it doesn't > execute native code, and that was why he worked on the plex > project afterwards. Well, it's slow, but it may be useful for some real life emulation now adays. I've been on the project as the PR guy since last May, and Bochs has sped up, gained a CLI-based config tool, and networking support; among other things. Right out of the box (pun not intended), you can run the demonstration DLX-Linux, and it only takes a few minutes to get MS-DOS or the QNX demo disk to run. I haven't attempted it, but Bochs has also been known to run Windows 95 and NT 4. Practically speaking, probably it's strongest use is as a way to run legacy DOS apps (including ones requiring networking support). I should also mention in my personal experience it ran Windows 3.1 at a fairly decent speed (on my 450 MHz machine, without slowing down the system). -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============
