[luau] Mandrake 8.2

[Alvin Murphy]

from the perspective of a newbie,  Mandrake is the clear choice.   I 
tried a few other distributions, primarily Red hat, but also Suse, 
Caldera, Elx, and Corel.  one problem with 8.2, if I understand 
correctly, is that it is written primarily for 686  machines and so I 
had a real mass when I tried to upgrade on my old K-6  machine.   I 
learned later there is a patch and a work  around,  but now that I have 
8.1  working well again,  I think I willtake a few breaths before 
launching back into 8.2.  I am not sure about the Win4Lin  problem; 
another part of the mess was uninstalling and trying to reinstall the 
Win4Lin kernel upgrade.  another problem was reinstalling my OSS  sound 
drivers:  but that might have worked out well if I had only gotten the 
basic install properly done.  

I must say I would have stayed with the corel system if I had gotten 
sound working;  it was a very slick install,  configured my home 
network,  found my Windows machines,  etc.  I do not know enough about 
this subject to understand why it was so slickbut I would think that 
Mandrake and others could learn something from studying  the Corel 
operating system.   Pardon the errors in  this,I am practicing with 
xvoice.  Bye