I recently installed Mandrake 7.2. All essential services were back
up in a couple of hours (despite forgetting to backup my named data
files :-(. Even postfix is similar enough to sendmail that it only
held me up for a few minutes. As a server everything is working OK.
However (you knew that was coming :-), there were/are some small
problems:
I have 2G each for /, /usr, /var, /usr/local, and about 20G for /home
The installation damn near filled the /usr partition. Even after
deleting several documentation packages I am still at 90%!
The patch, bison, flex, and yacc commands are missing. I would
appreciate if someone could tell me which RPM packages these essential
tools are stored. How the hell could anyone leave them out?
Some of the fonts in kde were _terrible_. The menus and some
applications looked absolutely ghastly. I was able to fix most of
this by switching Helvetica to ISO 8859-1.
The Mandrake Web page advises I use MandrakeUpdate to update packages
but the program was not installed by default.
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--Stephen Carville
http://www.heronforge.net/~stephen/gnupgkey.txt
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All religions are equally vile. What the Aztecs did with people's
hearts, Judaeo-Christianity does with their minds.
L. Neil Smith
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