At 10:41 PM 3/25/2002 -0600, you wrote: >does mandrake not have a feature like cvsup, where you can just download >the upgrade, or the source code to compile it all locally? from what i >know compiling source locally is supposed to work a lot better than using >precompiled binaries... but then im not an expert either (read: still >having to run windows)
With RPM systems, such as Mandrake, you can download a source RPM (SRPM) and compile the source using: # rpm --rebuild file.src.rpm This is similar to ports and cvsup. Not as nice though. Regards, Dustin >----- Original Message ----- >From: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>CMB >To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:03 PM >Subject: [brluglist] Mandrake 8.2 letdowns... > > > >Got, installed, and configured Mandrake 8.2 tonight and I can't help being >disappointed for the following reasons... > > >1. The default install on my system took a while (approx 45 minutes) as >compared to 8.0 which took considerably less. >2. The install did not allow me the option of not installing the >bootloader (perhaps because I chose recommended?) >3. The install didn't allow me to set up x the way I wanted to... (maybe >for the same reason) >4. Booting up seemed much slower than usual. ( I use loadlin from a dos >boot....fast) >5. Upon booting my system and logging in for the first time, I was >confronted by the "Mandrake First Time Wizard" which pretty much prevented >K from loading properly (i.e. up popped an app that bugged me for >personal information - my system did not respond at all to key-board >input, so I was locked out) >6. Getting into the second time worked; I discovered that the install >program had misconfigured the audio (yamaha on-board) despite having >detected and reported it correctly. (really no beg deal, I've never had >this actually work...much less detect properly...) >7. K would take an eternity to launch an app. (5 to 15 seconds...) > > >The hardware I run is not ultra-fast or ultra slow ( I run a P3-450 >w/128M) and it's performance was excellent with Mandrake 8.0 (I skipped 8.1) > >I'm going to try again tommorrow; if I remain vehemently unimpressed and >bothered by it, I will go back to 8.0. (I usually run 2 or 3 different >installs before I figure out what I want from the distro ... this was my >first/second...) > >Has anyone else experiemented with 8.2? > > >Thanks > >Craig --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Contractor http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
