Now that I've had some time to cool down, let me start by apologizing to
those diehard Mandrake people that couldn't read past the Subject before
getting offended and defensive of their distribution. Now, let me try to
re-explain this problem one more time so there is no confusion:
I have two computers, one is an old DELL P133Mhz with an old TEAC cdrom. The
other is another old computer with an AMD K-5 133mhz chip and a brand
spanking new 50x cdrom. Two problems began with the beta release of 7.0 the
release of air and now the release of 7.02. First problem is the cdrom. All
three versions of 7.0 will not autoboot or initialize on the old TEAC Cdrom.
They will however do this on the 50X cdrom no problemo. The bug in this
issue is that the 6.0 and 6.1 versions had NO problem on either cdrom. I
understand that Mandrake changed installers from the old Redhat installer to
the fancy new GUI installer. They did not, however carry over any code for
the older ATAPI cdroms. So, their new installer does not initialize on some
older CDROMS. My CDROM works fine because I went and reinstalled Mandrake
6.1 with no problems. Granted I'm not the most prolific programmer in the
world, but I've installed every distribution of Linux I could find on this
computer. The only other one that gave me any problems was the Corell dist.
(Which really sucks) The second problem is that I couldn't get the graphical
installer to recognize my mouse automatically on the AMD computer. No
problem I was still able to install with my keyboard, but I couldn't choose
what packages to install. I fixed this after finishing installation.
These were my two problems. After running into this problem 3 time with all
three 7.0 dists. and never received any fruitful help, only workaround
advice that was more trouble than it was worth. Or, told I didn't know what
I was doing and should read the documentation again because there wasn't any
bug when there obviously was. I finnally let my frustration get the best of
me and vented a little in hopes of making others think about the problem a
little instead of telling me how great their wonderful brand spanking new
Mandrake 7.02 works on all of THEIR computers. (This irritated me even more,
even though I probably deserved it because most people think these kinds of
letters are flame mail only)
The point is, and I apologize to those of you who made it this far, is that
in the competitive markets of OS's that is becoming more competitive as
Windblozes loses it's media control, Mandrake rushed this product out a
little fast and di NOT fix all of the REPORTED bugs in Oxygen. (Believe me,
I reported these bugs to them the moment O2 was released) And the CDROM and
Mouse issue are bugs because they do not crop up in earlier versions of
Mandrake. Maybe that can't fix all the bugs, but they should fix the
reported bugs or document a decent workaround until they can fix it before
releasing a product labelled as stable. This is good business sense if you
don't want to piss of your customers. And this is a customer oriented market
whether their product is free or not. That, you'll get what we give you
because it's free and love it attitude is just as bad as the we control the
market attitude of the giant Windsucks.
Thank You,
SA
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