Lucky you.
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>What a load of BS.
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>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.
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>----- 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
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>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.
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>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.
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>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?
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>-- Original Message --
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>>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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