On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:46:11PM +0100, Syd Hancock wrote:
I have a couple of them, they are a very nice machine, solidly made and an easy install (with mandrake 9.1 and knoppix at least) so I will not be using mdk 9.2 (which so far does not look as if it is going to be one of Mandrake's better distros unfortunately - many bugs have appeared within days of release. mdk9.1 is pretty solid though).
I have never been a fan of Mandrake since they shipped 6.1 with badly broken packages which made it completely useless (I also paid for a box set) and I did try Mandrake 9.2 the other day but again silly bugs which seem to be a lack of simple testing have rather spoilt what could have been a fantastic distro. The main thing which got me was they don't ship a package of kernel headers on CD for their kernel which meant I had to find and download the kernel source from their website which was a bit "ouch" at 40MB (well it wasn't ouch for me because I have adsl but that would take a couple of hours on modem) and they also tried to obfusciate the setting up of the network which seemed very keen to use rendevouz and DHCP with no clicky pointy button in the installer (in expert mode) to say "I want to tell you the ip address of DNS servers and router manually please".
If anyone wants a copy of Mandrake 9.2 download edition mail me offlist....
Adam