Sandeep Khanna wrote on Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 06:23:21AM -0500 :
> 
> 3. Their Install/Uninstall packages was kind of good for a complete 
> newbie. Altough, rpm file listing was not present in that either (Wonder 
> when Mandrake guys get it back, I really dig that feature)

Right click on the right hand window and select "Maximum Information."

> 2. MP3 support to completely missing. I had to externally install mpg123 
> and XMMS plugins

Known issue.

> 3. I had to separately install DVD rpms

Same as Mandrake.  Patent issues.  Take it up with your representative
why it is so important for government to prop up business models that
have been obsoleted by technology.

> 4. No builtin NTFS support for the Windows 2000 partition. I had to 
> install the NTFS module from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

Are you sure?  It's a part of the standard kernel!  If you do 
'locate ntfs' and it shows /lib/modules/{uname -r}/kernel/fs/ntfs.o,
then you do in fact have it.

> 5. Altough, My friends iPod (Windows version) was shown as recognized at 
> /dev/sda2 (in /var/log/messages) we had to manually mount it on a new 
> mount point (mkdir /mnt/ipod && mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod) and add the 
> entry in /etc/fstab . I beleive in Mandrake it would be automagically 
> available on the desktop, maybe !

Maybe.  It depends if the hotplug configuration recognized which module
to use and what to do with it.

> 6. There was no default Samba browser OR Network neighbourhood 
> application like gnomba or Linneighborhood already installed. But, I 

Those are contribs IIRC for Mandrake so they're not installed by default
for us either.  I could be wrong on that.

> Hope this helps anyone and hope we can have a faster, better Mozilla for 
> Mandrake too !

I am curious about that.  Mozilla starts fast for me, even under heavy
load, so I'm curious about the networking configuration there.  Does the
IP address reverse resolve?

Blue skies...                   Todd
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