On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Bill Hudspeth wrote:
> In any case, I have been testing one of the BSD distributions and it
> installs without a glitch, while MDK7.1 choked, gagged and did a 'kernel
> panic'. I concur with your estimate and I'm going to go get a refund
> too!
>
Just curious, which BSD, Openbsd, FreeBSD, NetBSD? I haven't tried any
of those for fear that it won't support all the proprietary hardware on my
Sony laptop as well as Mandrake does.
>
> Best to you,
>
> Bill Hudspeth, PhD
>
>
>
>
> Mallard wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for wasting the two hours I had today to do some programming!
> > I was compiling just fine in 7.0 after figuring out how to install
> > everything I needed. now I do a clean install of 7.1 "developer" and
> > everything else is installed to compile C++ except the libsrcc++ or
> > whatever you call it.
> > Make can't find fstream.h a basic every day file it should have if you
> > install "developer" I would think.
> > So I go to your BUGGY drakRPM and click on the install for the RPM and
> > it asks for cdrom2. Like I know what that is. I put in the "sources"
> > CD, Figuring that is #2 because there were only two CD's in 7.1 I got
> > for $30.
> > It spins the CD and sits there looking like a typical BUGGY windows
> > program, not telling me it didn't find "cdrom2" or maybe the file
> > wasn't there, who knows.
> > HOW ABOUT SOME USER FEEDBACK ONCE AND A WHILE? Did you guys forget how
> > to bring up a dialog box and print into it? No, instead let's let the
> > user guess what's happening.
> > Besides that, what lame program dissapears while it's "updating RPM
> > base" ? I have never seen anything like that before, makes you think it
> > crashed. Who is teaching these kids to program now days?
> > Then I do another lame thing, go into file manager root>mnt>cdrom so I
> > can see my cdrom (no mandrake couldn't have made little easy to find
> > links for them, too busy playing doom or something to spend 2 minutes
> > making things easier for the 1000's of users that will get your dist) -
> > then I find the file is on the main CD, but no it's not the file, it's
> > some other c++ goodie I have no clue what is for, so I don't think it's
> > here at all. WHY NOT? Is there a more $$ version with this ONE FILE in
> > it?
> > OK, so I go to the main site and do a search, try it, try to find it.
> > What the hell was it called? I don't remember, should have writen it
> > down. But geeks always write this stuff down, that's the point, we want
> > you to not have a life like we do, suffer like us, that's what Linux is
> > all about, "I wasted my life figuring this out, so I will now make
> > others do it too!" - is that the motto here?
> > So I decide to get smart ass, I am gonna get it from 7.0 and screw you
> > too! So I find it on 7.0, no thanks to the BROKEN search feature in
> > drakeRPM, looking for fstream.h, and the way you have to tell it to go
> > look on the cdrom, what type of user interface is that called?
> > I find it and try to use kpackage to install it. It does, but in
> > usr/include/c++-2/ that's the secret directory. So now it should make
> > just fine, RIGHT?
> > No, because make or gcc or whatever is configured to look in another
> > newer directory that mandrake made up FOR SOME REASON (HINT HINT???)
> > called c++-3 even though it's the same files. So like the smart ass I
> > am I make a directory called that and put the files in there.
> > AH HA! make finds the files and compiles, but wait! MORE ERRORS? on a
> > program that compiled just fine before? YES!! ios() has errors! it
> > didn't before, so now what???
> > Well my 2 hours are up, I wasted my life like you wanted. THANK YOU!
> > You guys owe me a new updated 7.1 CD set when you get your act
> > together.
> > I am calling your customer service line and returning this crap back to
> > you. BAD JOB on this one!
> > Now I have to waste more time re-installing 7.0 so I can do a simple
> > make. WHAT A JOKE!
> > I gave you $30 instead of updating 7.0 because I thought I would
> > contribute to the effort, I was wrong.
>
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Aug 19
