On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, you wrote:
I understand your frustration level. Sometimes you just
have to step back, have a brew and shut the computer off
for awhile. :-) Trust me, I've been there... :-) And I'm
STILL there sometimes. I work for an ISP and sometimes have
to work on customers' computers which are real pieces of
cra^H^H^H junk. F'r instance, we got an old PS/2 model 95
in here....had OS/2 on it and I had to load Windows on it.
Unfortunately, the Windows diskettes were bad....I
eventually got it working by taking the hard drive OUT of
the machine (SCSI) and hooking it up to my personal SCSI
card and copying the files over from a CD. But, it took me
several days of working on it to get to that point. :-)
>
> I just think sending
> Venus out with such serious problems was bad, but then not to update the
> packages shipped long after the release was really bad.
> Jeanette
>
Umm....well, what do you think Mandrake 6.1 is? ;-) Think
of Mandrake 6.1 as a "bug-fix release" of Mandrake 6.0. :-)
Kinda like Windows 98SE is a "bug-fix" for Windows
98...only it took Microsoft about 2 years to get it out,
instead of a month or two... :-)
Can you HONESTLY say you've *never* gotten the BSOD from a
Microsoft product? And yet, you don't have this level of
frustration at Microsoft.... :-) My guess is you had your
expectations unfairly raised about Linux/Mandrake being so
much better than Windows. Well, in many respects it is,
but these guys are just human...they make mistakes but
they're a LOT faster at fixing it than Microsoft. :-)
John
