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On March 18, 2004 12:31 pm, JoeHill wrote:" Despite the problems above, I must say that I have re-affirmed my trust
to Mandrake Linux. All previous Mandrakes were filled with dissapointment
for me, but this time I believe MandrakeSoft has created something that is
much-much better than in the past. If MandrakeSoft pulls it off and fixes
the problems above, they got a winner. In fact, I believe that this is the
highest score I ever gave to any Linux distro so far."
Link:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6327
Better than 9.2? Wow. I must be missing something, cuz 9.2 is (until I send
this) pretty rock solid, and I can't think of anything I'm missing.
Must...resist...urge...to...upgrade...
I wasn't overly enamoured of 9.2 to be perfectly honest. While it was an
improvement over 9.1 in many ways there were things that I didn't find user
friendly. Some of the repetitive problems/posts on this and other lists are
evidence of that IMHO.
<rant mode> Don't_need_to_resist_urge_to_upgrade._
Not all is coming up roses for everyone, and I'd be a total jerk if I didn't
mention my weekend.
Mandrake 10 will not install at all on my system. Period.
One of the systems that RC1 installed on without trouble died a horrible death
when I tried to upgrade it to 10.0 Community Edition on the weekend. I then
tried to upgrade via ftp to full cooker with even less success. It self
destructed to the point that it corrupted the partition table beyond
recognition and that wonderful trick destroyed the Windows install that was
on the disk as well.
Recovery required a full low level format and re-partitioning of the hard
drive with the manufacturer's disk utilities, and a re-install of Windows.
Since the customer no longer had the RC1 disks, and since Community Edition
and trying an ftp install from the (then) current boot.iso both tried to do
the same thing all over again they are running Windows only for now.
They're using a Knoppix disk to satisfy their GNU/Linux jones.
I thought the idea was to get rid of the rest of the FSCKING bugs by using
Community as a final testing/bug hunting release, then having an Official
Release, not screw up what was already working. <sigh>
I'll give it the rest of this week and next; but after that if the same shit
is happening Mandrake can colour me gone.
Along with my friends/customers/acquaintances/family..... </rant mode>
Apologies for the rant.
Mandrake web site mentiones explicitly that people who want a rock solid release should wait for Mandrake Official,
which is relase 2 - 3 months after Community edition.
Mandrake Community Edition is for the explorers under us.
I recently tried mandrake 9.2 for the first time since years on a Toshiba laptop.
I am very impressed with the stability (zero defects) and the quality of the display under KDE (just is good as Windows 2000, more user friendly than Windows XP)
Regards,
-- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz
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