On Fri Mar 14, 2003 at 10:20:06PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote:
=) I don't use it in production, but I do run it on my primary workstation. It's been pretty stable (actually, I'm quite baffled by the number of bug reports just because it has been working so well here).
Vincent,
I really get the impression that whether it works well or seems to have bugs is totally hardware dependent. As for me, I've got it on my primary workstation here at home and at work, and RC2 is doing magnificantly in both places. I had a bit of a struggle with networking on a laptop I use at work, but through persistance and plain old, mule-headed stuborness I was able to work it out.
Oh, absolutely... I agree with you 110% here. And part of our problem is a very small hardware budget (obviously, we need to pay developers first). So we don't have all the latest and greatest that people might be using; which is what makes the entire cooker process invaluable. We reach a broader range of hardware through cooker than we ever could otherwise.
I've got cooker running on my workstation and my windows machine (dual-boot) and both work great. I've got cooker/PPC running on an imac G4 and aside from a few little oddities, it works great too.
Getting it onto my Toshiba Satellite has been an excercise in futility, although I haven't had too much time to spend on it. The RC2 kernel broke something so even the kernel messages come up very dim, almost unreadable. And wireless with WEP doesn't work, even in the betas when I could install it.
I am solidly commited to Mandrake for ever. I've seen the others and they don't hold a candle to even the beta releases of Mandrake, let alone the final releases.
This is good to hear, and I agree with you myself. I'm not afraid to use non-Mandrake stuff when warranted, but let me tell you... No other distro holds a candle to Mandrake as far as I'm concerned, for a workstation or server. So I've got FreeBSD running on a P166 for testing (used for writing stuff on my linsec.ca site), and OpenBSD on a Sparc Station2. Then I use OS X on my ibook and dual-boot it on my G4 "lamp". Otherwise, this is a 100% Mandrake shop (all Linux here is Mandrake).
And I do try other distros... I think I've tried every distro at least once by now.
I am ponderous though about the nav window buginess of KDE apps when running in KDE. they don't appear to work correctly. I posted this on cooker, but it hasn't even gotten a bite in three days.
Can't help you with that one... I'm using fluxbox now and if not that, GNOME. anti-KDE sentiment aside, I don't really use it. =)
Something interesting about the KDE thing I'd been having trouble with. When I turned on single-click for short cuts and folders in KDE the problem in the nav windows disappeared. This leads me to believe there's something odd going on between the DT interface and the system, although at this point I'm not sure where to begin to look for the root cause. In the grand scheme of things it's not a crucial issue. It was just something I'd never experienced in Mandrake; I'm not even sure it's a Mandrake issue.
-- Mark
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