Hi There,
It seems funny, because I have a system that isn't fully supported by Linux and it works fine. I know I haven't done a lot of power using yet but for everyday Joe Bloggs using I find it rock solid. I must say the original Download version is somewhat buggy (compiling etc...), but the PowerPack which I recently purchased seems to fix a lot of the problems. Mind you it could be a marketing ploy ;-).
I'm not trying to put you down here. But try it on different systems before you make a forgone conclusion. I'll include my hardware below and see if you can make any comparisons if it can help you in any way.
Motherboard: ASUS P3V4X
CPU: Pentium III 800EB MHz
Graphics: Leadtek Winfast GeForce2 GTS(GeForce2 GTS with 64Mb DDR)
Sound: Videologic Sonicfury (Turtle Beach Santa Cruz spin off)
HardDrive: Seagate 20Gb ATA66 (located on Primary Master IDE port)
DVD-ROM: Pioneer 16x Tray Loaded (located on Secondary Master)
CD-ROM: Aopen 48x Tray Loaded (located on Secondary Slave)
TV Card: DynaLink TView with FM receiver
Network Card: D-Link 10/100Mb ethernet
BTW. I'm demonstrating Mandrake 8.1 to a die hard MAC fan on saturday. So we'll see how it goes. Good Luck
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 1:49 AM
To: expert
Subject: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap!
Just to vent:
Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any
other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug & play.
Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece
of SH!T!
I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a
Mandrake supporter since V.7.x
I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux
guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile.
Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you
do....DON'T upgrade to MDK8.
I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away
trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that
worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2
If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they
will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8.
Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go.
Ken
