Hi, fellow MDK-ers. I may be repeating myself, but I am not as much of a MDK "geek", as a network person trying to use (and paying for it!) the MDK solution as underlying system for my network and security tools ... this as an introduction (to point my "end-user" status, if you will, and how many customers of MDK may perceive the issues) ;)
I pre-ordered and just got the 9.2 package, and I already have some questions: 1. I have been reading on this list and its archives about tons of problems with the new release. I have already run into one that some others may have experienced (doing an online update screwed up afterwards all the menus I had in KDE). [Q] - is there a repository of all the known and still unpatched screw-ups, on the MDK web site? And possibly workarounds? 2. I have purchased the Pro-Pack (I think ?!? - it is the one with 9 CDs and a workstation DVD), but without the manuals (of course, as I was the one having gotten burned before with the purchase of their special "Definitive Manual" - which was a piece of worthless paper, falling apart, also). The package and invoice do not contain any product ID. [Q] Having paid "something" ($139.95), I was expecting to be able to register and get support for the <whatever_time_frame_30_days_?!?>, so I can get to the main purpose of my install, i.e. trying new tools and recompiling my stuff. But there is no product ID I could use. Am I wrong assuming that for the commercial package one would expect some support to begin with? I am willing and capable of looking and resolving issues on my own, but I have some (I consider them decent) pre-requisites for things I pay for ... am I totally off? 3. I used to use easy urpmi's web site to build additional sources for packages (eventually replacing even the need for CDs). I have tried a couple of 9.2 ones, from the same http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php I have been using for 9.1, but almost all the variations I have tried had failed one way or another (in the middle of updates, or not being able to contact sites at all, etc.). I am still successful in using the 9.1 ones (with a minor exception - it looks like my favorite French club-internet.fr source site is not working anymore with curl, and I have to use wget ... as of a week and a half ago). [Q] Does anybody know if the 9.2 is still too "crude" to count on the easy urpmi repositories of source sites? Are those still unstable for this new release? [Overall-Qs] Does this whole 9.2 look really embarrassingly unprofessionally released to any of you? I have tried Suse/Novell 9.0, while awaiting for my 9.2 MDK package, and I was quite impressed with it ... and the only reason of not switching over being their lack of an urpmi-like tool (apt was not enough for what I was trying to do). Are we seeing here a Merecedes vs. Renault difference developing (I used to use both types of cars heavily, while in Europe, and I have this strange feeling about distributions now, the same way) ;)? I sure hope nobody blames the above on my lack of trying to resolve issues by researching myself. It is more of a - perhaps unwarranted - little bit higher than "figure it out yourself" expectation, from a commercial product. I apologize for your time spent reading this, Stef
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