On Thursday 06 March 2003 17:56, andre wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 17:22, Steffen Barszus wrote: > > On Thursday 06 March 2003 13:34, rcc wrote: > > > definitely, Germany (=ISDN country) is the second largest market next > > > to the US. I just don't understand how mdk can afford to surrender that > > > market to SuSE. I've personally converted lots of people to Mandrake > > > but I always am somwhat reluctant when I meet people with ISDN because > > > of the rather suboptimal ISDN support of mdk. > > > > Yes and that is bugging me a lot. It seems there aren't a lot of people > > using isdn on cooker, but I know there are a lot outside from cooker, > > mostly people, that try to understand linux. Even Redhat is better on > > isdn now then mandrake. And that there redhat is a full american distro. > > I cant currently do more then try to help. I guess ISDN will get at least > > in europe more important. Maybe DSL is more and more important for > > internet connection, but isdn is not only internetconnection. I would not > > complain so much if it wouldn't be a problem since 6.1 to have isdn nice > > and running. It got better , but it is far from optimal. > > Dial up in general seems to be problematic for mandrake. I don't know why > > modems are detected if the users are using kppp or similar apps anyway > > and have to configure it by hand then. > > To run cooker you need a lot of cheap bandwidth. ISDN doesn't deliver that > so running cooker is not likely
Yes this could explain it. I have the cooker-list only for checking whats going on, since I can't run cooker too. A sat-feed with cooker would be good , so that anybody with digital sat could get it. But I guess something like that is not realistic. -- Regards Steffen ____________________ counter.li.org : #296567. machine: 181800 vdr-box : 87 ____________________ Please dont CC me, since if I have replied I'll watch the tread. Both mails will be filtered to the ML-folder. Thanks
