> >Remember - this will be the first Linux experience to people, and from > > many people's experience a .0 version is NOT recommended to newbies at > > all - same applies to Red Hat 8.0 (which still gives me lots of problems > > compiling stuff) > > While I agree with most of the arguments presented by Hetz and other > people, I still think that installing the latest Mandrake (current is > RC3, and its possible that the release will be out in two days) is a > good idea. the RC3 is considered release quality by Mandrake as far as I > know.
I don't. I have tested it and I still find some unresolved symbols in some RPMS, had some crashes on KDE 3.0.3 (which I didn't have on my build) and I still say that it is not stable nor recommended for newbies. Same goes for Red Hat 8.0 (here's something fun - check out from KDE CVS the "arts" directory and try to compile it - good luck). > Now, why install the latest untested .0 version on a newbie's computer ? > first its not really that untested - it's not like M$ software that was > tested (no matter how exensivly) only in the company's QA labs: a Linux > release was tested prior to its release by thousands of users - actuall, > honest to god, users. thats usually what I usually call tested software. I'm sorry, but my previous experience with Mandrake and Red Hat .0 showed that no matter how many testers have tried their beta - it failed on wide usage and had to be majorly updated before recommended to use for newbies. See Mandrake 8.0 and Red Hat 7.0. > Second - 9.0 has tons of newbie friendly enhancements - like the tried > and tested DrakX installer where most changes since 8.1 were bug fixes, > the new vastly improved and user friendly Mandrake Control Center, > Mozilla with all the BiDi fixes, KDE 3.0.3 with all the bug fixes in, > OpenOffice 1.1 (yes - more bug fixes), Kernel 2.4.19 with the new risky > stuff turned off, etc. all in all - this promises to be the stablest > Mandrake release ever - the release of three RCs only goes to show it IMO. I don't buy that. Sorry. I'm sure that you'll see lots of patches and updates after MDK 9.0 will be out the door. Worse - I have 2 crashes while installing MDK 9.0 RC2 on a low end pentium machine. > If I'm asked - I'll recomend to install the latest MDK9.0 release - > especially for people who are not "power users". but if so decided, I > will try my best to explain all the aspects of choosing to go with such > a system and will offer by default the distribution chosen for the > "official" install party distro (and please don't make it Debian - a > windows user will not even survive the installation setup before running > away screaming) I would really recommend to use Mandrake 8.2 or Red Hat 7.3 with all the updates + latest KDE (I don't recommend GNOME 2 as default - from my testing - it is very unstable even with GNOME 2.0.1 and there are lots of GTK 1.x apps which will be problematic for newbies to use with hebrew, but I would definately recommend to install it and the latest GnomeMeeting) Just my .20 NIS (unemployeed, what did you expect? :) Hetz ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
