this sounds wonderful already. i can see mandrake selling lots of mandrakes real soon :) On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Patrick, > > It does have kde2, in beta, and the xfree 4.01 installed fine. 7.2 is > certainly quirky, since it is still beta - I had to try a few different > installs before it would boot, and so far, while my printer appears to > get configured (in DrakConf - the printer list during the install was > empty), it is ignored by all apps. I also have problems with getting my > CD/RW working as well as floppy - the internal ZIP worked fine. But, > this does not bother me, as this is the first beta release - I expect to > have to do some work. I had problems with booting one of my other OS's , > but I got that figured out. Also, while I selected GRUB as the > bootloader during install, it started up LILO. I had to run the grub > install script to get that in place. > > cheers, > philomena > > patrick wrote: > > > > On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > > > > > WHEN can we expect it to be released OFFICIALLY (not beta)? unless it's says on >that > > > page, then I'm an idiot... > > > > > > philomena wrote: > > > > > > > Here's the announcement page: > > > > > > > > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72beta1.php3 > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > philomena > > > > > > > > patrick wrote: > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished >bug! > > > > > > > > > > can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta > > > > > > > > > > thanks pat > > > > > just read the page. sounds pretty interesting. hopefully > > it will have kde2.0. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Description: > > ----------------------------------------
