Oh don't worry... You won't need to upgrade for some time. If their
quickness to support Mandrake 7.2 was any indicator... Support for a
Mandrake 8 kernel shouldn't be ready until Feb. next year. ;)
*Brandon
- Just callin' them as I see's 'em.
On 07 Apr 2001 12:22:50 +1000, Tim Fairchild wrote:
> On Friday 06 April 2001 20:46, you wrote:
> > What's the brouhaha about?
> >
> > Look, netraverse is a commercial company. That means that they need to
> > SELL STUFF to stay in business. SELLING STUFF, as opposed to giving it
> > away, is not necessarily a bad thing; most of us make our living selling
> > something, even if it's just the time we put into a project.
> > . . .
> > OK, so I paid $50 for win4lin, and got to use it for 6 months before
> > having to buy an upgrade. That's $10 a months or less - heck, I spend
>
> Oh poo. Due to all the trouble getting a patch for mandrake 7.2 I DID NOT get
> 6 months out of v2.0 More like 3 months if that. And it was a total PAIN IN
> THE ARSE to get working, downloading bits and pieces from everywhere. And I
> paid more then $50 bucks over here in Oz and I don't have a lot of money to
> throw arround and I do expect a bit more life out of a product...
>
> And tho they are calling this product v3.0 it is really just another upgrade
> - with features I don't even want or need. I don't care if it's called 1.2,
> 2.1 or 3.0. I will whinge about it as I think it sux.
>
> As for the win 95 to win 98 upgrade - well, actually my win 95 applications
> still run on my win 98 and win ME boxes.
>
> Tho win4lin does work when it gets going, these first v1.0 and v2.0 Beta's
> we've been using have been an install nightmare unless you are running an
> absolute basic stock install of a distro they choose to support. If you use
> anything else or have even a slight custom kernel, like for sound support or
> scsi-emu - or a current kernel they haven't supported yet - then it's a big
> job to install.
>
> Compare the install to vmware sometime and see why they can charge the big
> bucks...
>
> And this is just feedback for them. I don't want anything, just making a
> point here. Some of us linux people have very little use for windows, so if
> we don't get the value out of a product we'll just drop it. Simple as that. I
> have to sit back and see if it's worth paying out more money to upgrade a
> product I shouldn't need to upgrade so that I can run one application I can
> just as easily run on another machine in the network.
>
> tim
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