On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 12:49, tom447 wrote: > We've been anticipating 9.0 and testing the RC's. With > RC3, some of us are having trouble mounting CDROM drives. > People scoff at things like this and problems with mice, > but a bug like this will kill the foothold we worked hard > to get Mandrake. It would also fuel the Microsoft skeptics > that have constantly hassled us.
Perhaps this is an impertinent question ... but are you obliged to move to 9.0? It sounds as though a considerable effort has been put into 8.2, and perhaps it would be best to do nothing. Unlike Microsoft products there is no compulsion to upgrade*; I don't know what'll happen in the future, but 8.0 and 8.1 were still having patches produced when 8.2 was extant and I suggest it would be a terrible mistake if patches were not produced for 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2 when 9.0 becomes extant. A couple of people I know are still running 7.0 on 486s ... Alastair * as well as via manipulation of licences, through technical tricks such as Windows Update no longer working in Windows 95.
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