On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> I'm running RH 6.2 at the moment. I susbscribe to this list since
> there are lotta good people here and I've learned a tremendous amount.
> 2 reasons I'm running RH.. When 7.0 came out there were just too many
> problem's being reported. I'm not good enough in Linux to fix some of
> these on my own. Also, as of tonite I own a CD burner. I didn't
> before, and I burnt a RH CD at work beacuse I needed to make a few work
> projects that I wanted to run Linux on. Now that I have a burner, I
> will probably upgrade ( new install ) of Linux when KDE 2.0 comes out
> and appears on Mdk.. I will probably go back to MDK since I think they
> are really making it easier for some of us less knowledgable..
>
I second this. While I may be more technically competent than some of
the "newbies," I recently upgraded from Mandrake 6.0 to RedHat 6.2 for
many of the same reasons you (Alan N.) list. I was happy with
Mandrake 6.0, except I wanted KDE 1.1.2 and the highest I'd been able
to upgrade it to was 1.1.1. When I tried to upgrade to 1.1.2, I
screwed the pooch and lost my X completely. What was I to do?
Reinstall. At that time, the latest release was 7.02. I didn't want
to upgrade to that because of all the "bugs" that I'd read about on
this list. So, I upgraded to RH 6.2.
When KDE2 comes out, I'll likely reformat and reinstall, salvaging my
/home directory and some other "storage" type directories. :-) I'm
expecting that KDE2 will likely come out around the end of this year,
and since Mandrake appears to offer a new version about twice a year,
a new version of Mandrake will (hopefully) be available around the
first of 2001! :-) Of course, I'll probably wait until 2nd quarter of
2001 to make sure that all the bugs are worked out, but... :-)
John
