If I could comment on this, don't upgrade, install, is excellent advice. even windows is bad at upgrading, I first upgraded to 2000 from 98, and the box was so slow that it was practically unusable... I did a clean install, and the speed more then doubled. (the upgrade also broke stuff, lost drivers for some hardware, and was generally a pain.)
its not just linux,, all OS's like to be installed instead of upgraded. rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: Thursday, 29 November 2001 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap! 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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