I am on vacation in North Carolina with my newest (one week old) grandson and happened to catch this thread. Before coming up I used bittorrent to download the 3 ISO's and loaded my desktop and my laptop with 9.2. It did take three or four tries to get it loaded but I had never burned an ISO before so I can't say if it was me or the files. Anyway, 9.2 is much better than 9.1. My Kodak DX3700 now works perfectly with both computers, most of the programs I use load faster and run smoother.
I have been with Mandrake since 7.0 and all I can say is that is steadly getting better with each increment. I will stay and support Mandrake and never go back to windows. At least if I do have a problem with Mandrake there is always someone who can help you out. For those that bit--, well maybe they just need something to bit-- about. With as young as Mandrake is and the abundance of different hardware out there you can't expect everything to be perfect, yet. Just my 2C's. Maureen > > From: Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2003/11/02 Sun PM 06:28:50 CST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] What do you suppose this is about? > > On Sunday 02 November 2003 06:21 pm, robin wrote: > > Curt Tresenriter wrote: > > > ARS Technica had a complaining piece about 9.2 > > > > > > http://arstechnica.com/etc/linux/index.html > > > > Does anyone have anything positive to say about 9.2? My own impression > > This is my post from PCLinuxOnline on this topic: > > The problem with this article is that he makes the claim that 9.2 is "just > bad," but the only given in evidence to support it relates to community > squabbling. The only technical point he raises is the LG issue, which is > clearly not Mandrake's fault (although many do blame them for it). What else > is wrong with it that makes it so bad. > > The squabbling on the bittorrent thing was a few malcontents being very vocal. > Much of it was by people that just didn't want to use it, as opposed to those > that could not. And for those that couldn't, authenticated ftp was offered. > Nearly 7500 people completed the download via bittorrent. > > My experience: > 1) The packaging is better than 9.0 or 9.1 by far. I say this because I have > been able to rebuild the entire distro for athlon architecture without fixing > any spec files. Not so with 9.0 and 9.1. > > 2) upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 went super smooth with urpmi. > > 3) look and feel is excellent, crisp and professional > > 4) It's nice to see them actually fixing bugs (referring to the flood of > updates). This pattern started with 9.1, with a bunch of bug fixes coming out > just before the boxed sets arrived. I think this is a deliberate strategy on > their part to make sure the buyers of the boxed sets have as bug-free release > as possible. > > I have said in the past and I'll say again, their problems have much more to > do with their communication than it does with the quality of the distro. > Every release has niggles and bugs, some worse than others. Somehow there is > a negativity that reigns supreme with Mandrake watchers. > > I just don't get why people feel such a need to bash MandrakeSoft. Sometimes > it just seems that nothing they do is right. > > > -- > /g > > "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside > a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx > > >
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