Interesting things are happening when you rsync cooker :) Assuming no need to back out what's being added:
1. Mozilla 1.1 will be in the final release; 2. OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 ditto and the package is excellent - it solved all the problems I had tried to work out for myself using the generic OOo installations and, despite bashing at the MandrakeSoft version for hours, I could only find two or three minor problems; 3. It looks as though the infamous 'purple and yellow' colour set is being replaced as my Gnome icons were unexpectedly updated today and very impressive they look; 4. Somebody has finally managed to work out how to support USB PalmOS handhelds 'out of the box', the fiddling around required to get them to connect and sync being a problem ever since such handhelds started appearing; 5. The Control Centre has loads more options, and drakconf2 is detecting just about everything I have; 6. I really think this will be the best Mandrake release yet. Although bugs are still being knocked out, and there are the inevitable problems with arcane setups, I'm impressed with what's going on. The only real demerit is the firewalling; InteractiveBastille is deprecated and MandrakeSoft is using a combination of msec, shorewall and iptables plus its own front end as part of the Control Centre, which I dislike and which could well completely confuse new users. However, there's still time to fix this. Alastair
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