On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 22:57, James Sparenberg wrote: > I've got to put in my 2 cents here. For me... 8.2 bit bad. Why, I was > running i810 and i815 chipset motherboards and having all kinds of > stability problems with 9.0 these boxes have all been rock solid. any > funky hassles I've had have been either due to pushing the box too hard > or trying to do something I shouldn't have been trying to do. Not due to > a weakness in 9.0. Actually I've found it to be the most solidly tested > version since 7.0. Yes there are problems with programs that run ON > Linux. KDE - Gnome - etc etc. Many of these aren't so much MDK > problems as just... problems. If you ever want something that will > drive you nuts trying to get it to do what you want... try RH 8.0... > Blue blows. > > James
Heck, I haven't even touched the new distro or the new GUI -- but I do have to work on a number of RH 7.x servers, and man do I miss urpmi. I also think Mandrake RPMs are generally better put together. That is, less likely to be broken and more likely to have the configure options I wanted. > > > On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 12:57, Philip Webb wrote: > > 021222 Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > Ah, with it now too late ya'll have made me regret buying MDK 9.0. > > -- details snipped -- > > > > i've been happily running an upgrade 8.2 -> 9.0rc1 since September. > > certainly, 8.0 was awful (very bad KDE) & 8.2 quite good, > > but there's no reason to avoid 9.0 , > > tho' you might want to try a few things from Cooker. > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
