I'm a huge mandrake proponent, love it, and although all my hardware seems to
work fine a lot of my config files are hand configed. so pretty much any
kernel with the right options would work for me. What I noticed that put me
off was when I installed a system yesterday and got a few packages that
couldn't be installed from CD so I had to skip them.
kde-pim was one, can't remember the other 2.
Anyway I downloaded from sunet.se, checked the md5's were good, burned the
ISO's and verfied the ISO against what was on the CD, that also verified
good.
On Sunday 22 April 2001 08:39, you wrote:
> Well,
> I'm testing Rh-7.1 for some problems I'm having at home with Mdk and my PC.
> Indeed at the moment the differences are:
>
> Topics Mandrake 8.0 Redhat 7.1
> ------------------------------------------
> Scanner NOT working Working
> DVD NOT working Working
> SCSI sys NOT working Working
> Network Working Working
> NVidia NOT working Working
> Desk Env. Perfect Good
> Programs Many nice programs Quite enought
>
> So, I really don't know. I like Mandrake since 5.x over all other
> distributions, but I need to use my hardware!
> Me and other talked about the scanner problem. It was ignored.
> Xine is old, something other don't work. Even xine won't compile.
> Some tools are missing even selectioning ALL categories during
> installation, I mean, for example, nslookup and traceroute, pine and so on.
> I mean: nslookup, traceroute and ping are even present in Window$, now I
> cannot find it in Linux?!?!?!?!?
> XcdRoast (ok, even if only root can use it, it's always better than
> nothing!) is not in the distribution and gcombust is in the second cd...
> Moreover, people with aic scsi subsystem cannot install Mdk-8.0 on their
> machine (I had to use my dvd for installation...), and I suppose that 90%
> of scsi controllers are "aic" controllers.
> NVidia drivers and Pine are not included in distribution for their license.
> OK, why then do you release Netscape? Should be coherent with it.
> So... when 8.1? ;(
>
> Claudio
>
> PS) Sorry, I know you made a great work. But I was waiting since 3 months
> for something that now is not usable at 100% but... let's say at 60%. How
> many people are in this conditions?!?
--
Jason Straight
