I've been using Mandrake since 9.0 and up till now have been really pleased with it.
I installed the download edition of v9.2 today and found that it no longer includes the kernel sources package!!
I checked on their website and they make no mention of not including it and it simply doesn't appear in the package list. It is, however, available on all their FTP mirrors (weighing in at 40MB!).
Has anyone heard anything about this? Is it a mistake or have they deliberately left it out?
Cheers, Richard
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 18:54, Richard Lewis wrote:
I've been using Mandrake since 9.0 and up till now have been really pleased with it.
I installed the download edition of v9.2 today and found that it no longer includes the kernel sources package!!
I checked on their website and they make no mention of not including it and it simply doesn't appear in the package list. It is, however, available on all their FTP mirrors (weighing in at 40MB!).
Has anyone heard anything about this? Is it a mistake or have they deliberately left it out?
Taken from the index.htm file on the Mandrake 9.2 distro on the cover of the latest Linux Format.
"3. Sources All the Mandrake Linux specific packages come with their sources in the source-CD (PowerPack Edition). You can download all the source packages from our FTP servers. If you don't have any convenient Internet access, Mandrake Linux can send you a source archive for a small fee. "
Worryingly I can't see the Kernel Headers either.....eek
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 09:27:09PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On Tuesday 25 November 2003 18:54, Richard Lewis wrote:
Has anyone heard anything about this? Is it a mistake or have they deliberately left it out?
Worryingly I can't see the Kernel Headers either.....eek
They are not there, it was a mistake. You have to download them :)
I tried Mandrake 9.2 and it had loads of bugs, quite serious ones too and didn't do a very good job of configuring any of my hardware for me :( after a day or two of Mandrake 9.2 I went back to Debian. I also then tried Fedora which has a much nicer front end and configured much more of my hardware, it also gave some really nice touches after install most things just worked.
Although I then installed it on a machine I was going to give my parents only to find out that fedora doesn't handle dialup very well with the pointy clicky gui tools (actually it didn't seem to work at all, I could get it to dialup but it then wouldn't disconnect and when you had got it disconnected it would then refuse to dialup again).
Adam
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