Greetings: I subscribed to the Cooker list today, and am writing in order to introduce myself.
I am a (recently unemployed) software engineer, and spent the past seven years doing Product Support (ie bugfixes), Development, and Testing for the AS/400 operating system. Due to the recent layoffs, I have some time on my hands :) therefore, I decided to install Mandrake 8.2 beta 3 and do some testing in order to keep my skills sharp... I started using Linux way back in 1992, with Slackware 1.x (running kernel 1.0.59, if I remember correctly -- I think at the time Slackware came with 0.93preXX but 1.0.59 had just been released, so I upgraded right away... and have been using Linux ever since, for one purpose or another. My primary box has always been windows, since the only REAL use I had for a home system was games -- you can't exactly do AS/400 coding on a measly PC!!! <grin> Recently, I have been running ClarkConnect 0.8.1 (a redhat7.1 based firewall / IP masq distribution) on an old 486, and have been playing with mandrake 8.1 and redhat 7.2. A few days ago, I had to wipe out my linux partition (hard drive problems & some strange conflict with XP) so I took the opportunity today to install mandrake 8.2 Beta3. So far, so good :) I have a few bugs to report, based on the install, but will send those as separate issues. If anyone has a specific area they feel needs testing, let me know and I'll concentrate on those areas. Otherwise I'll just do general testing and report what I find (with workarounds or fixes if I can) Thanks, Curt Curt Schemmel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
