On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:01 am, s wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2001 10:10 am, you wrote: > > I am 12 (twelve) years experience Windows user > > augh, that's the problem!! > > > but only 6 months using > > Mandrake, and I hope Mandrake 8.2 (or 9.0 ??) will support: > > > > 1. Change screen resolution directly in X Windows, rather "Ctrl Alt +/-" > > If I want to change my screen resolution, I should: > > a. Go to Mandrake Control Panel > > b. Access the "Desktop" then click on "Screen Resolution" > > c. Click the screen resolution that I want > > You can, check under 'Display' > > > 2. Integrated Control Panel. Any setting should be access via Control > > Panel. ANY SETTING! > > They just about are, especially since you can open a terminal too right in > it. Have you looked around in Mandrake Control Center? > > > 3. No more stupid name "xyx -123-xxxx.RPM". Just use "install.exe". Paket > > name will be like this: > > a. \mnt\cdrom\startoffice\install.exe > > b. \mnt\cdrom\kde3.0\install.exe > > c. \mnt\cdrom\koffice2.0\install.exe > > some are just about as easy, like: install.sh. But you might as well > forget it for the rest. The majority will always have to indicate > architecture, package type and version. > > > 4. Worsktation is NOT Server! > > No, but alot people who buy mandrake like having all of these things > available. You never know when you might want to fire up a web or mail > server from home. I appreciate all that stuff being there, even if I don't > use it right now. And the people purchasing it for their servers, like to > have a little eye candy once in a while. > They aren't going to make a seperate distro for each. If you checked other > distros, you will find the same, as is the tradition of linux > distributions. Just install what you want. Did you bother to check out the > individual package list during install? > > > That's not ALL, I still THINKING what I want for New Mandrake, but sorry, > > I can't do the revision because I have very limited Linux knowledge. I am > > JUST A USER not the CREATOR. Sorry, if my opinion TOO IDEAL??? > > > > Thanks all > > what's ideal to you, isn't ideal for everyone. Why don't you check out: > http://www.redmondlinux.org/ > > I don't usually try to sway people towards another distro, but in this case > I think it might be appropriate. > > -s S is correct. Redmond doesn't have a monopoly on ergonomics or on quality, and you are asking for the familiar, not the ideal. Things are the way they are for a good and sufficient reason.... (I am surprised you didn't ask for a virus checker, but that is one of the reasons; we don't even need one because the system is designed to defeat such exploits)
Still keep thinking, and while you do, explore the desktops available (there are 11 and they offer different feature/speed tradeoffs) and see that there are many ways to skin a cat. When you tjink of a feature that would just be great, like an automated backup and single-click restore on config files so people can approach changing their systems without fear, then post and we will be listening. .exe won't cut it for a system with 3000 base packages each of which can and does contain one or more programs and each of which may need to call other programs. PeanutLinux is more what you are looking for, just 99Mb and only one desktop, but even there you have rpms and dependencies because programs are generally a compendium of small modules(which are standalone programs) instead of a huge monolith that obfuscates almost everything and is very hard to maintain. http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ Civileme
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