On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 07:45:00 -0500 "David A. Bandel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Declan Moriarty wrote:
> 
> > Anything!  Mandrake seems to be sweeping the reviews just now and
> 8.1 is 
> > recently out. There are a lot of 'drakes' in it (Harddrake,
> rpmdrake, etc) 
> > Ignore them if they get on your nerves.
> > Yes, but I was more than just slightly annoyed to find out:
> 1. No wireless support (no wireless_tools)
> 2. No wireless drivers (why not just leave out ethernet support?)
> 3. The PCMCIA support was 16 bit only, not cardbus (which caused my
> Orinoco 
> wireless card to hang during startup).
> 
> They spent all their time polishing the chrome before they checked
> to see if 
> the engine would run :-(.
> 

During the few months I spent on the Madrake Cooker list, I discovered
that they were really into hacking the latest trivial thing, while
real problems I reported went unanswered.

> 
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