Brian....when I tried out Caldera there were sure enough rough
edges for me. Also, the real official Linux Mandrake Power Pack
has 6 cd's and a whole bunch of stuff in rpm format that you
can't find anywhere else (like star office & wordperfect).
Maybe you shouldn't write off Mandrake so easily or quickly or
lightly? Enjoy.
Alan
"Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote:
>
> I suppose that I have an expectation that I shouldn't have to go to the
> net to get documentation on new features in the distribution.
>
> In my case it would seem that I got a bad copy of Mandrake 'cause I
> only seem to have two disks though the package looks like it's meant to
> hold three of 'em. (I got the Macmillan package.)
>
> I must say as well that I've been unimpressed by the lack of response
> to my "cooker" missive regarding installation issues and I will
> probably leave the Mandrake fold once Caldera comes out with their next
> distribution. They seem to spend a bit more time smoothing out the
> rough edges.
>
> (And they happen to include most of the packages *I* happen to want,
> though nowhere near the variety that Mandrake does. They simplify the
> task of installation by just flat-out choosing KDE and not giving as
> many options. Which is ok with me since I happen to like their
> options. It would presumably not satisfy most Mandrake users, however.)
>
> I will probably re-post my "issues" mail, broken up into pieces and
> cross-posted to the lists, though, just to see if there's any consensus
> on these issues that might motivate Mandrake to solve them or at least
> to respond . . .
>
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> | On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Brian T. Schellenberger wrote:
> |
> | > On Tue, 07 Mar 2000, Axalon wrote:
> | > | On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, alann wrote:
> | > |
> | > | > Just curious, does supermount NOT work?? Why are so many people wanting to
>remove it?
> | > |
> | > | No supermount does work.
> | > |
> | > | It like everything else has basic do's and dont's that some people don't
> | > | care to learn,
> | >
> | > I'm sorry, I've stayed restrained for a long time, but . . .
> | >
> | > Where do you get off saying that people "don't care to learn"???
> | >
> | > HOW THE HELL ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT?
> | >
> | > The man entry for supermount doesn't discuss any of this.
> | >
> | > THERE ARE NO #@$! HOWTOS IN MANDRAKE 7.0!!!!!!!
> | >
> | > I've been using Unix for 19 years, and Linux for 6, but I've not been
> | > reading minds at all.
> | >
> | > The sources of information I'm used to consulting don't explain this,
> | > and when I installed Mandrake 7.0, my devices were just plain WRONG.
> | >
> | > I am rather offended at the suggestion that this somehow represents
> | > laziness on my part.
> | >
> | >
> |
> | Funny.... less than 45 seconds with a browser and search engine and I came
> | up with a link to a rather nice README on supermount here:
> |
> | http://mops.uci.agh.edu.pl/mopsy-linux/Documentation/filesystems/supermount.txt
> |
> | I could suggest a little less caffeine in your diet while I'm at it.
> |
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