Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> >Surely someone must know. Why does the X tool even exist if it can only
> >get the job done for the person who wrote it, if even then? I don't mind
> >using cli at all, but my goal was to figure out the X tool. I've gotten
> >nowhere with that.
> This tool is not meant for cooker use. It is meant for keeping a
So how does it get tested during cooker/beta/rc to ensure that it works
with GA?
> released version up-to-date. It is assumed (possibly incorrectly) that
> if you are using a cooker version of Mandrake that you are aware of this
> and know how to keep the machine up-to-date.
Everyone who does had to get there somehow. Unless I'm missing
something, no one is born knowing how.
> Are you new to Linux or Mandrake? If so, you're diving in pretty deep
Define new? My first Linux install was RedHat 5.2. My first Mandrake
install, 7.1. My first Mandrake beta testing, 8.0. My first cooker, last
Friday, after rc1 wouldn't install except as upgrade from 9.1.
> by running a test version of anything Linux. It may be better to run
> something that is ready for those that are experiencing Linux or
> Mandrake Linux for the first time. If not, knock yourself out. :-)
I cobbled the box purely for testing Mandrake cooker/beta/rcx. I learned
over the past several Mandrake beta versions that if I want to actually
use Mandrake for normal things, to only use releases, and to experiment
with something else. So, I have this box running OS/2 24/7; a box with
W98, OS/2, & RedHat 9 used mostly for W98; a box with W98, OS/2 & RedHat
6.2, used for little more than my EPROM burner; a box with DOS, W2K,
OS/2, Mdk 7.1, Corel 1.1, RedHat 7.3 & Mdk 9.1, used mostly for Mdk; and
the new (slow, 200 MHz) box for cooker.
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James 1:19 NIV
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