In my experiance 8.1 is much better than 7.x. BUT, never "upgrade" your OS as this always seems to break stuff (my cd always fails to work again). Do a good back up and plan for a fresh install every time. It a shame the upgrade procedure doesn't work well, but a fresh install is quicker than and upgrade, which leaves you with some spare time to use the excellent tools to reconfigure a few things.
Nick. Jo�o Henrique da Silva Nunes Jales Ribeiro wrote: >If you've seen a neat icon on your desktop refering to something called >"mandrake control center" you should have already clicked on it. It has a >strange feature that allows to QUICKLY share your internet connection. Maybe >you've made your share on 7.2 the hard way, i've also done it on 7.1, but it >seems to be easier on 8.1, you should check it up. > >On Wednesday 28 November 2001 22:14, you wrote: > >>In regard to my problems, my internet connection sharing quit working after >>an upgrade from 7.2 to 8.1. And I had to do a fresh install of 8.1 in order >>to get the CDRW to work. 8.1 seems to break stuff. These problems probably >>can be fixed but an upgrade should never break stuff that's already working >>on an earlier version. >> >>At 12:53 PM 11/28/2001 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Really? I installed 8.1 on an old IBM Thinkpad 760XL >>>w/o incident. Perhaps a little more detail might be >>>more constructive... >>> >>>-- >>> Chris Haidinyak >>> >>> >>>-----Original Message----- >>> >>From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>> >>>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 >>>
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