What a load of BS.
i downloaded the two iso cds from the mandrake site and instlaled them on my
system and it works fine. no hiccups and no problems. everything i wanted
installed and it runs better faster, and picks up more of my hardware then
7.1 ever did.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ron peake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 6:33 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] KDE2 in 7.2 download
Hi
I have attempted to install the 7.2 download 2 CD version last weekend and
had similar problems. Additional comments:
(1) Ditch the Drake partitioner and use the non-free Partition Magic 5.X
program instead. The Drake partitioner will not work properly with Quantum
Fireball drives containing a FAT16/FAT32 partitions and obviously from the
number of complaints on Mandrake lists, there are many other types of drives
it will not work on as well.
(2) KDE 2.0 is prone to crashes and too resource intensive. (Yes, I
installed
the final version.)
(3) No matter what type of install is attempted, 7.2 will install non-system
packages which were de-selected and not install other packages which were
selected.
(4) KDE2/this-kernel-version causes constant disk activity. (64MB RAM, swap
128MB). CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is totally ineffective to shut down a process
gracefully!
(5) USERDRAKE is clearly broken as are many others.
(6) Many configuration scripts are broken.
(7) The installation process needs very much work.
There are a number of interesting ideas in 7.2 but they are just that: ideas
which have been incompletely implemented. As an avid Mandrake 7.1 user
I find this to be sad.
Mandrake seems to have lost it's way: The Mandrake-Macmillan monopoly deal,
Macmillan's non-support, Macmillan's different releases of 7.2 (Wallmart
and so on). It is clear that the present Mandrake Management aim Mandrake
at every type of user, anyone who can read their adverts and prod a
keyboard,
but who is the Mandrake distribution really suitable for? Mandrake Technical
side clearly have their ideas which seem to conflict with the Mandrake
Moneymen
ideas.
In short: In my opinion, 7.2 is not ready for novice users/Windows users
and possibly too much trouble for even an expert to bother with.
You can do a lot better Mandrake, but do you really want to?
-- Original Message --
>Hi all, I am still unable to find the desktop that shows up on the
>linux-Mandrake tutorial for KDE. I have only a tool bar at the bottom of
>the page and no icons at all. The K button is a penguin with Linux
>written in. Is all this normal with the downloaded 7.2 version? I realy
>like the look of the desk top in the tutorial.
> Not sure if I have a complete download or if my CDrom is giving up,
>cause I had several packages (16 in an attempt at expert/workstation
>install) that failed to install. Can't tell if that is the CD or the
>CDrom. Any suggestions are welcome. TIA Dennis M.
>
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