Alastair Scott wrote: >On Monday 06 May 2002 5:23 pm, Paul wrote: > >>In reply to shane's mail, d.d. Mon, 6 May 2002 08:52:56 -0700: >> >>>um, maybe i am just lucky enough to not have his bad luck, but what >>>points are correct? i had none of the trouble he describes..... >>>what did i do wrong? (right?) >>> >>I read the review too. I think he had a flakey config to start with. >> > >Indeed, but the points about the firewall (it _isn't_ clear when it's >working and, once I've learnt more, I may try to write a Kicker >application to show basic information, including when and if packets >are being rejected) and nVidia cards (posts here anon, plus my personal >experience with another machine) are right ... > >Also, problems with StarOffice/OpenOffice fonts, although not >MandrakeSoft's fault, are becoming staple fare for the [openoffice] >discussion lists :/ > >Alastair > >PS What is (supposedly) missing from KDE in the boxed set? > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Well, NVidia chooses to make their 3D driver a binary-only. On commercial distros this may be included/distributed, but we don't know from his article which he tried to install. Anyway, a few days after the masters were sent for pressing, NVidia announced some new drivers and those worked a lot better with kernel 2.4.18+.
KDE has only one thing missing, AFAIK, which is the loading of libraries that are extremely dangerous to a number of models of IBM laptops. Again, AFAIK, Mandrake is the only one to omit them, but the dead laptops are no less real for the others distros refusal to acknowledge the problem. Certain other KDE apps, that would destroy integrated desktop menus or are simply unnecessary with Mandrake Control Center, are hidden menu items. Now on firewall, nothing is set up until you use Interactive Bastille. Tiny Firewall was causing more problems than it was solving and was pulled for overhaul. Basically, the network settings assumed a single machine and cut off all local services, which was noticeable to anyone trying to print on another local machine or trying to use NFS. So the real problem here is that the doc is out of sync with the situation. Civileme And if you care to cc this to anyone, feel free. Civileme
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