Peter Ruskin wrote: > Welcome back Ron! Where have you been?
Nowhere, still here! Just have been very disillusioned with my attempts to change Mandrake's work for the better, so found it best (for me) to stay away. But with 8.2 Beta 1, I am moved to try again. I am still on 8.0. since 8.1 is so bad I am unable to move up to it, after many tries. 8.2 might be better, time will tell, but so far it is not encouraging - networking is STILL not set up usably (even when the missing RPMs are installed), X will not initialise on one of my machines even though it tested OK during the instsll, an 8.1 network will not communicate with an 8.0 network, shutting down when a nfs link to another machine is still up hangs the machine indefinitely (8.0, 8.1, 8.2?), we still do not have an installer which will run as a normal Linux program in another partition (necessary for beta testing), and so on.... BTW, I strongly feel that the iso images published by Mandrake should follow the same naming convention as the RPMs. For example, the move from beta 1 to beta 2 should only be a version change in the name so that troels.rsync5.pl and rsync will do an update in place rather than having to re-download the entire 648 MB, don't you think? After all the name of the product has NOT changed! -- Ron. [au]
