Well, not too long ago (countable in months) I would have had no problem installing 9.0 and then upgrading over the net to get the fixes. I had DSL and life was good. Now I am stuck forever with a time-limited (90 minutes) modem connection that ranges from a high of 44000 bps (early morning/late evening) down to 24000 bps (during the day). Given the constraints, I simply cannot deal with having to download numerous large packages in order to get supermount to work, get perl fixed, etc, etc.
I also have to be able to use my system NOW and cannot afford to play with a new x.0 release. In a couple of months, when my dissertation is finished, I can play but until then, no way. So I will wait for 9.1 with its corrections to 9.0 problems and increased stability (presumeably). praedor On Tuesday 08 October 2002 02:00 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: > Praedor Tempus wrote: > > There seems to > > be some valid complaints about the revamping of rpmdrake from the user > > point of view, for instance. I don't know personally because I cancelled > > my 9.0 order based on reviews online and comments in this list - I will > > wait for 9.1 to give Mandrake a chance to fix new bugs and useability [...] > various sisters, since it was me that made the complaint, I would > suggest you look again at 9.0. I was a major crier of "Disaster!" at > first, but that was mainly due to a defect in our troels.rsync6.2.pl > filter which caused a handful of RPMs not to be downloaded. > > Mandrake has also made some changes to the 9.0 tree. There are at the > moment 19 RPM updates in Mandrake's 9.0-updates tree and 17 in > Mandrake's 9.0 unsupported tree, so things are looking much better. I > have 9.0 (not yet updated) in daily production and am now mighty pleased! -- Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor...the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded with patriotism, will offer up all their rights unto the leader and gladly so. --unknown
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