On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 12:30, Charlie M. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > September 19, 2003 12:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > On Friday September 19 2003 01:03 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > > Which brings us back again to the question as to whether > > > > downloads should be available as quickly as they are at > > > > present. Idealogically, yes, but in terms of income, maybe not. > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > Careful here... I suggested that around the time of 9.1's pending > > > release and got blasted heavily. *grin* > > > > > > James > > > > Since Mandrake is heavily dependant on the community for > > development, software contributions and patches, testing and bug > > reports, makin the distro unavailable for d/l till after release > > would be impossible. Install RC2 now, update to current cooker, and > > by Monday you'll have 9.2 final. The same is possible by adding > > cooker sources to 9.1 an updating to current 9.2. Whether the iso's > > (or bittorrent) are available or not. > > As soon as the "Final" call goes out some of us will be volunteering our > bandwidth through the bit torrent link at the qa wiki page. > > I still have a few niggling complaints about 9.2, but nothing I would term a > show stopper. It's looking good. I've "fresh installed" cooker on the 4 9.1 > machines I had access to over the past couple of days, also just finished a > hard drive install and network upgrade on this one. The only one I had > trouble with was the young fella's NForce 2 equipped machine, but that was > expected and only needed the nvnet and other NVidia drivers installed. > > Now if they'd just put the super user mode konsole and super user mode file > manager back on the list I'd probably be happy. If they also fixed the kde > address book of course. ;-) > > Told you they were small "niggles." >
Actually I'm planning on waiting a week.. Why? Well I want to do a urpmi based upgrade. Let the mirrors coold down. follow the directions and see if I either 1. Have a working box. 2. Have a reason to re-install. I'm hoping for option 1. James
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