Brant Fitzsimmons wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
This tool is not meant for cooker use. It is meant for keeping aSurely 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?
So how does it get tested during cooker/beta/rc to ensure that it works with GA?
I agree with you on this. I've asked myself the same thing.
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.
My child will. ;-)
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.
Unless I'm reading it wrong, and every version of Linux in the paragraph above reads "Mandrake Linux 9.1", we both know what "new" is.
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.
Lots of info, yet no answer. So are you new or not? ;-)
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