On Sunday 23 May 2004 04:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: >>> snip
> <soapbox> > > That is becoming something of an issue with me personally. Everyone else > appears to be of the mindset that everyone else has a broadband > connection and that they can happily urpmi everything to do this that > and the other thing - which is not entirely true. Doing large scale > updates is entirely out of the question for me unless I can do an > upgrade or complete install from already created CD's. Really does tend > to raise my ire. Excellent point. One way around the dilemma that works here is to order update CD's from Cheapbytes. (Quick, efficient, up-to-date and inexpensive.) Is there anything like their service available in Australia? > Aside from that, after many weeks of watching the MDK 10 issues and > quirks, I'm resolved to sit and wait (as I always do) for a "non whole > number" version. Every distro, every version that has been of a "whole > number" has been, in my eyes, a "testing ground" and the .1 or .2 > version has been the better bet. My experience is somewhat different than yours. The only version that never did work right for me was 7.2 (in retrospect, those problems were likely due to my own shortcomings compounded by the limitations of the hardware I had at the time). 9.2 wasn't any bargain, either -- lots and lots of updates were required. Luckily, a kind soul on the list took pity on me and mailed me an update CD -- even more current than the cheapbytes version. Even a slow CDROM is faster than any broadband connection. > I've tested 10CE - played around with it enough to see that it's not > going to be anything I can "upgrade" to or anything that I can install > on my working box without heaps of headache, heaps of hacking, and heaps > of change. And I'm certainly NOT going to get rid of my trusty linmodem > "just to get by". Ain't no such thing as a trusty winmodem. Too much fiddling about, and too dependent on driver support. External serial modems don't need no stinking drivers. Elsewhere on this list there is a message from some guy who has found out not only that his particular trusty winmodem is not supported in the 2.6 kernels, but there is no plan to create such support. Some folks might consider that to be one hell of a learning opportunity. I don't. Yeah, he could run 10.0 with a 2.4 kernel, but isn't the new kernel the main point of 10.0? > Mind you, I'd really like to have MDK 10+, but I fear it's going to be > some time off - same as I waited for MDK 9.1 - which after I HAD waited, > it was worth the wait in the end. > > I'm not trying to deter anyone from anything - I'm venting here. But > bear in mind I'm also stating something that most of y'all "oldies" will > already know. > > I'm also just mad as a wet hen that everyone seems to think that most of > the world is capable of having broadband...ahem. > > </soapbox> > > stephen kuhn - owner Thanks for the use of your soapbox. -- cmg
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