Hi, Last week I succesfully installed 9.1 on my iBook. I just wanted to thanks Mandrake team and especially Stew for this. I got my iBook last summer, and then baught and tried Mandrake 8.2 without success - the ATI Radeon was a bit to new at the time I guess. Debian and Yellow Dog weren't any better for me at the time to be fair. Since I had other boxes and mainly uses terminal apps this wasn't such a big issue using OS X/fink. But as time passes on, you miss X I guess.
I'm glad to be back on this ml: 9.1 downloaded ISOs made it - hey remember I payed Mandrake store for a non-working distro on a supposed to be supported laptop! ;-) Kudos to Stew. Whatever the distro, my experience/research with Linux on Mac told me that we're few, we're second-class citizens, life's hard, nobody cares blablabla. But Mandrake and Stew did it. On a marketing point of view, I also want to point out that the 9.1 eye-candy is *good*. I understand that Mandrake hired contracted some (tallented) graphic designers and it shows. The icons are gorgeous, I appreciate that on my x86 box too. This may even help to appeal some die-hard Apple users (which I'm not). This is good because it's pleasant and appealing to work on your station, even if you don't use much more than emacs and a couple of terminals. I'm the kind of user who don't even care to set a wallpaper but still out of the box it's rewarding, it's nice, it's a good thing(tm). I've not seen that expressed to often, so I think I should tell that yes, this is money and time well spent for Mandrake. There're still many glitches, but I don't want to sound negative here. Not much info on the install process to give: partitionning was done a year ago etc. Ah yes: if your screen goes dark after the early boot stages, do wait 2-3 minutes. At first I got a dark screen in the stages when you usually have the lines: doing this and that_______________________[OK] (inherited from Red Hat) ...then discovered kdm by "mistake" after a letting my iBook rest for a few minutes. Sorry I don't quite remember what I did to have this familiar lines back, I'll have to sort out my notes. Vive Mandrake! Vive la France! Vive les fromages! Bonsoir, -- Jean-Baptiste Maillet
