So far from what I've seen it's mostly looks and there are a lot more
widgets, gadgets and think-a-ma-bobs. One important thing though is there
is much more of a variety of hardware support. For instance my printer, a
Canon BJC6000, while it would run under Mdk 7.1 it wasn't directly
supported. I had to print to a general queue, whereas in Mdk 7.2 using
CUPS my BJC6000 is driectly supported and the apps communicate directly to
the printer via the ldr command thru parallel port #1. (Netscape is the
only app using the ldr command to print.)
To setup the printer CUPS offers a web browser interface that is very much
akin to the hardware applets that many have used before in Windows to
setup their printers. It works very nicely and as I said, even though
Canon doesn't support Linux at all, my Canon BJC6000 IS directly supported
with CUPS. Way to guys!
The video support is Much improved over 7.1 and I thought the video was
great in that version. And it was/is. However, in 7.2 it has gotten even
better.
You may spend a little extra setup and configuration time with Mdk 7.2
simply if for no other reason there are a few changes that will require
this. But the extra time spent to get it all set and running smoothly is
well worth the effort. I started the install Thrusday evening, did a fresh
install. That evening I spent only a few minutes after the initial install
to make sure the most important thing were in and running.
Next day, Friday spent 2 hours that evening surveying the lay of the land
learning where everything was. Saturday and Sunday I put in about 16 hours
al togther. Now that wasn't how long it took to get the basic user system
up and going. Internet, printing, apps installed...thats a
server/developer type of machine complete with dyndns.org client,
firewall, portsentry, Sendmail system, Apache, and lots more that I'm very
particular about.
After this weekend I'm very, very happy with the machine I've got running
on my desk.
So, if you've got the CD's and all your data files backed up I'd say Go
for it. You can always reinstall 7.1 if you don't like it.
--
Mark
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 Kelly, Christopher spake passionately saying:
> So, what are the differences between MDK 7.1 and 7.2?
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> Chris Kelly
> Registered Linux user 185775
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