Maybe you enjoy a subpar product. This problem began with Oxygen, has
continued through with Air and 7.02. That is three distributions that have
had the same problem. The bug was not present in any Mandrake dist. BEFORE
7.0. I've been talking on the Mandrake lists and to Mandrake themselves
about this problem since the relese of Oxygen. 7.02 is just as good as BETA.
If you wish to use a subpar product feel free. But I do not think this
enhances the image of Linux, but rather, brings it down. Mandrake was in
such a hurry to get out from under the shadow of Redhat that they rushed an
unfinished product to market. I'm not the only one that has come across this
'failure to initialize cdrom' issue. If the installers for Mandrake 6.1 can
initialize this cdrom, then they ought include someof that cosde to overcome
the problem. I am only trying to wake a blind community up before they
become led around by the chain like winbloze slaves. The purpose of Linux
was to develop a better, cheaper, more reliable OS, not rehash old problems.
SA
>From: Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:21:55 -0700
>
>This is getting real old... I have installed Makdrake 7.02 on 15 machines
>so
>far. From Pentium 120 to a dual Pentium III machine with no problems. I
>understand that some people have problems but no OS can support every piece
>of
>hardware. I would suggest if you run a version of Linux that you can get
>along
>with instead of bashing.... Or maybe Windows is a better solution I
>understand
>they support every piece of hardware.
>
>On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > With all due respect, If you had read my earlier emails on this subject
>you
> > would have seen that I have installed every Linux distribution out there
>and
> > was even able to install the Mandrake 7.02 dist. on another computer.
>The so
> > called bug is not 'my' mistake, but the mistake of Mandrake. They have
>had
> > this problem with 7.0 since the Oxygen release, and even though many
>people
> > complained of the problem to Mandrake they refused to fix the BUG!!!
>This is
> > a corporate problem with Mandrake and they need to pull their respective
> > heads out of their self righteous arses before they rush a BETA product
>to
> > market under the guise of a final product. I probably would not be so
> > irritated if they had a fix for the BUG, but they don't and like others,
>you
> > have failed to give any helpful information on fixing the problem. Good
>Day
> > and Good Luck.
> > SA
> >
> >
> > >From: "Mike & Tracy Holt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
> > >Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 05:58:46 -0800
> > >
> > >With all due respect, I've found that most of the time, the things that
> > >I've
> > >considered "bugs" were simply my own lack of knowledge to make them
>work -
> > >I'm using Mandrake 7.02 and found it to be one of the most complete and
> > >easy
> > >distribs available. (Have used RedHat 6, SuSE 6.3 and now using the
> > >downloaded .iso image of Mandrake 7.02)
> > >Sincerely,
> > >Michael Holt
> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >----- Original Message -----
> > >From: "Sean Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 4:10 AM
> > >Subject: [expert] Mandrake 7.02 is messed up.
> > >
> > >
> > > > For the life of me, I can not understand why Mandrake continues to
>ship
> > >a
> > > > defective product. If their older versions had no problem
>initializing
> > > > cdroms and their new version DOES have problems initializing cdroms,
> > >then
> > > > why not correct that part of the code with the older versions part
>of
> > >code?
> > > > I'm no computer genius, but this problem is asinine. With a
>competitive
> > > > market for Linux distributions that is growing everyday, it seems to
>me
> > >that
> > > > Mandrake can't afford to pissoff their customers. For that matter,
>with
> > >the
> > > > ever expanding market of computer OS's, now up to 4 reliable ones, I
> > >would
> > > > think that Mandrake would try to avoid driving their customers away.
> > >Once
> > > > again, Mandrake rushed an unfinished product to market. I guess in
>the
> > >world
> > > > of computers you don't have to have a real business plan or even
> > >understand
> > > > business to get ahead for a little while. So, until Mandrake decides
>to
> > > > correct these issues, I for on am going back to the more RELIABLE
>Redhat
> > > > distribution. At least their head isn't THAT far up their arse. Good
>Day
> > >and
> > > > Good Luck.
> > > > SA
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