On Thursday 26 April 2001 09:41, you wrote:
> The best thing I have found are --
> 1. Excellent hardware detection (previously, I had to configure the
> pcmcia hw [corega etherII] and the embadded soundcard for my laptop --
> but now, installer takes care of them)
Agreed - no problemo here either.
> 2. Good framebuffer mode support. (including flushy Mandrake logo in
> kernel bootup) ... If the fb video card is supported natively, then the
> user will not see any kinda kernel message during boot. (though this is
> very easy to do .. but still, I liked it). The aurora is also customised
> proparly.
My i810 did not go GUI automatically. Why i even lost LILO graphic (* the
installer has swapped between lilo-text and lilo-graphic :) )
> 3. Mandrake optimisation of KDE2.1.1 (though in the Mandrake8 beta,
> the enhance-icon behaviour was included, but in the final release, it is
> absent)
Duhh.
> 4. Mozilla0.8 is included in the distro, but the mozilla-mail support
> is not there.
Somewhere during installation i saw those words - mozilla-mail, maybe its on
the II CD?
> 5. gcc version is 2.96-0.48
> 6. glibc version is 2.2.2
Yeah, gotta chk ac14 compile today.
> And the otherthings are as good as it can be!!!!
> BTW, The installer screen is bit changed. While pkg installation is
> going on, It is now showing nice pics abt the product.
Wow! - Where is all that - i got no pics .
> So, lots more to explore ..... and enjoy
YUPP! Thanks to MDK and you folks at Lateral!!
Ashwin
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