While MDK 9.2 might have been the first distribution to get its name in
the news for destroying CD-ROMs, I saw a posting on the Gentoo website
this evening that someone killed their LG CD-ROM by installing Gentoo.
Of course that doesn't help the bad press that Mandrake has had.
LeRoy
Want to
I guess the real question is, will the average person who is contemplating
trying out Linux going to have heard/going to remember that Mandrake kills
your CD drive, or the actual details of the problem. All too often it is
the misinformation that matters.
LeRoy
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:50
So, based upon this entry each time was an install and each time all
partitions were formatted I guess you will acknowledge that it wasn't
Microsoft's fault!
;^)
LeRoy
Hi
got 9.2 on that thing at last, noapic and acpi=off ( OK Greg :) )
BUT it took 3 installs to do it,
first bombed out
Turbolinux is supposed to be the/a leading distribution in Asia.
It is still listed as active at www.distrowatch.com
LeRoy
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 21:14, Franki wrote:
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:36 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
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rgds
Franki
One interesting
Often times it is easier to blame someone else - especially if it is the
evil empire - than to try to find a solution.
When I loaded 9.1 on my brand new laptop w/ XP Pro, it was the smoothest
linux install I ever did (which may or may not indicate a positive
experience ;^) - it was good!
Windows
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LeRoy
On 29 Oct 2003 18:32:05 +1100
Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
Well since the announcement of the packet drivers and Mandrake, does
anyone know how the packet writing works in Mandrake 9.2, I mean it
would be really cool just to use a
I have been using Verizon DSL for over a year. Set it up under Windows
98/2k. When I installed MDK 9.1 on my new Dell it connected to the
internet without a hitch! Rarely I have had problems, but very rarely. I
have two machines with 9.1 and both can connect as reliably as the various
flavors of
I use kweather to track what is happening in Ha Noi, Viet Nam. Seems to
work just fine. I go back and forth between MDK 9.1 and XP throughout
the day, so I don't notice any long-term use related problems.
It seems to me that when I went to set it up, Viet Nam (or at least Ha
Noi) was not among
My fairly new Dell Inspiron 8500 is quite happy with 9.1. I imagine 9.2
would work equally as well.
LeRoy
In anticipation of the early bird pre-order MDK 9.2 package arrival, I
am also looking into indulging myself with a new laptop (the one I have
right now is running 9.1, but it is at a
