-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > > challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no > > worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS!!!! a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS > > MANDRAKESOFT!!! > > > > Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. > > > > The font support in 9.1 is lightyears ahead of all previous versions of > > Mandrake. It's every bit, if not more, then RH 8.0 and rivals that of the > > MAC. GOD this is gorgeous. > > > > Kmail appears to have taken some leaps forward, it's just one HELL of a > > long time since I've used and seen it. but this is wonderful. And I'm a > > die-hard Mozilla man. Lordy Lordy!!! > > > > Not all of the things in MCC work yet, but hey! this the first beta. This > > beta though speaks volumes of whats to come. And to think this nearly > > fully functional system installed from "1" CD. Now _THATS_ impressive. > > > > I noticed that Linuxconf is missing from the lineup. I'm hoping that > > isn't the norm, but rather because this is the first beta release of this > > version. Well...I'm off to play and discover. Geez! I feel like a kid at > > Christmas time. :) > > > > Whoo HOOOO!!! > > > > Mark > > I agree Mark but... > > Yep. Gorgeous but slightly flaky on this old piece of crap. :-) > > For a beta operating system it's amazing. > > A bit hard to get it to start the first time and a total pain in the ass > because all of the Mandrake partitions (except /boot and /) on all 4 of my > hard drives are XFS which isn't supported apparently, but all in all > definitely worth testing. > > I'll have to boot back to 9.0 soon and do something about that so I can > access my music storage. > > Regards; > Charlie
I noticed also that there must be some changes that have been made to ext3 because the version that Mdk9.1 and RH8.1 are using Mandrake 9.0 doesn't recognize. A bit odd, cause I don't recall hearing anything about changes to this FS changing at all. Mark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+IL6wJuZ1geTzHgERAkGAAKD1JAyY5+1LtoHL2qaheZYr/LMdRwCfQgHb SIWlsNwBoiK1i/r+5nNksHk= =qQKY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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