I've been playing around with 7.1 for a while now and ended being annoyed at several things...... 1. The 7.1 default install installs with a boot image. If you then update your kernel using the updated RPMS the System.map and vmlinuz are swapped to reflect the new kernel. Unfortunately the image is left at the earlier kernel state. This means that when you boot your scsi stuff whinges and most liikely doesn't work! Nice touch laziness on the packagers behalf. 2. If you use the perl updates to solve the security problems you can say goodbye to DrakConf. Another slight overlook on Mandrakes packagers behalf.....Do you want those Mandrake Utilities to work??? Obviously not because they break when doing a security update! 3. Every tried looking at your default path when you have started X???? I've installed this a number of times and always get the same result...under X your path from /etc/profile repeats 3 times. It appears that someone was attempting to use the variable PROFILE_LOADED to ensure this doesn't happen. Unfortunately they expected that the only time it was called was from inside the same function and never exported it. Consequence is that you get a nice long path thats repeated over and over. Try exporting the variable and removing some lines from /etc/bashrc if you want to get rid of this. Overall my assement of 7.1 is that is is of a significant lower quality with regards to the effort put into the packaging. Pity because this was one of the reasons I swapped to Mandrake from RH. Guess its time to look going back the other way next time. Regards
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