On Saturday 15 November 2003 06:15 pm, Melissa Reese wrote:
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Hi Derek,
On Saturday, November 15, 2003, at 5:37:52 PM PST, you wrote:
If 9.2 turns some newbies off Linux it will be a pity. Once you correct the initial bugs it actually works quite nicely. (Supermount is great now :-)
After reading about all these issues with the current MDK 9.2 release, I guess I can look forward to some interesting moments as I install and try to work with my first MDK! :-)
- -- Melissa
I think I'll skip this one. 9.1 works--everything works, just the way I want it. I've upgraded only Mozilla and SpamAssassin, and try as I might, I can't come up with a single reason why I need 9.2. For the record, I skipped 8.1 and 9.0, also. 8.2 worked for me just as well as 9.1 does--clean and easy, but there is a point where upgrading does make sense--I just don't see that point, yet.
This sort of highlights the difference between Mandrake and SuSe. Mandrake is cutting edge and stuff may not work. SuSe is a page behind, but stuff works. But God, I really hate YAST. Mandrake's user tools are so much better--when they work, anyway. And that is why I still use Mandrake, if anyone reading this really cares.
There's an up and down curve with releases of any distro, with some being remembered as great versions and others as turkeys. RedHat 6.0 was a great groundbreaking distro; 7.0 was for many people a nightmare. Mandrake 7.2 and 9.1 were high points, I think. The 8.* series were OK, but I had kernel and supermount issues. Given that 9.1 was one of the best releases ever, it might have been better to delay 9.2 a little (particularly so as to catch Mozilla 1.5 and the stable release of OpenOffice 1.1) but there again, the timing of a distro is more luck than anything. With software development happening as rapidly as it does, there's no way you can time things so all major packages are up to date _and_ stable - you can have one or the other, but not both.
I may upgrade to 9.2 on my office machine, as its an FTP and Samba server (who knows, I may even be able to connect to those bloody XP boxes with Samba 3.0!). Since it has no proprietary drivers, upgrading shouldn't be too hard. When I get my new home computer, I'll probably stick with 9.1 for day to day stuff, and install 10.0 from Cooker on a separate partition for fun and games and bug reporting (if my modem connection can handle it).
Sir Robin
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