Hai
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 20:38, Ron Daniel wrote:
> Great. Here I sit, stuck in the world of M$ writing this email cause I
> just upgraded to 9.1 Somebody should have told me about the descent
> (downgrade) on the other side.
>
Well Ive been running Mandrake since 7.0 ( hey wheres my sound !!? ) and
Ive recently updated from mdk 9.0 to 9.1, and to be honest 9.0 was
horrible compared to 9.1. Nothing worked in 9.0, I had to recompile the
kernel on every ( 38 of them in all )machine because there was no ACPI
support half my network cards sat there doing nothing and URPMI kept
forgetting it had to install dependencies.
OK how to install 9.1..well for starters don't use upgrade it sux in
Windows so why should it be better in Linux.
My usual install is I format all the partitions accept /home I use the
same primary user login during the install and root can be whatever you
want. I didn't have to change any partitions Mandrake usually knows what
they were.
Now a quick lesson you will have to delete all the .filename
directories/files in your primary user directory because even though the
GUI boots up fine, Ive found there are still some nasty conflicts in
there and the GUI is slow as hell to boot up if you don't. I have a few
apps that I need to keep the config files for so I backup and mv
(move)the .filename to filename_bak .
Also I wouldn't put 9.0 on a laptop no ACPI support in 9.0 also USB is
flaky unless you update to 2.4.21.
Evolution in 9.1 is waaaay better KDE has 100's less bugs and Gnome is
just perfect (has weird crashes though on network apps ), I had to redo
KDE on every bloody machine at work under 9.0 ...9.1 with KDE 3.1 just
works.
PS by the way SuSE 8.2 worked 100% on the Bosses IBM Laptop, boss wont
touch outlook now doesn't like having worry about all the virii and
attachments and loves the fact that Office 2000 installs and runs fine.
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