Good question. I got the APC mag with Mandrake 9.0 but instead of upgrading from my Mandrake 8.1 system I just backed up my files and installed a new copy...but that doesn't mean everything went perfectly.
After the install i found that for some unknown reason the installer had installed OpenOffice.Org with the German language instead of english. I also found that it installed both the 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels, but only supplied headers for 2.4.18...which is useless if your using 2.4.19 because it means that any kernel modules you want to compile will be using the 2.4.18 headers which would make it quite difficult to actually use those modules in your 2.4.19 kernel....as I found out. I havent had any problems with stability at all. I dont have the most bigendien of machines (only a P2 333mhz with 160meg ram and 8gig hdd) but its been going well. Mind you as son as I installed it I ran the mandrake update program to download and install the latest security and bug fixes. One thing mandrake 9.0 has going for it is its look and feel. It is quite nice looking indeed, and is so simple to use...not that I really care that much for looks and ease of use...i'm happy with a text CLI. On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 15:49, Andrewd wrote: > OK, I have picked up my ACP mag with v9 on it, I am currently running v8.2, with > everything working eg burner, sound, OOv1 etc, is there any reason why I should > upgrade to v9 (besides that I can and I don't really want to create a third > partition to test it on), is there any compelling reason? > > Thanx > Andrew D > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
