Just my 2p worth....
I recently installed RH6 on a new hard disk having rebuilt my PC. Mainly for
curiosity as i knew i would blow it away again when Mandrake 6 comes out.
The following doesn't work out of the box...
1. BS/DEL problem with X.
2. UK keyboard map requested during install, but don't work.
3. Zip drive not preconfiured on desktop.
4. CD Writer not configured on Desktop (actually never gets detected, only
the reader that was in use during install - could this be addressed please
??)
5. No user mount/dismount on devices.
6. No ftp access to machine by default.
Now i'm not asking for help with these things (i can't be bothered, i'm only
binding time until Mandrake 6 comes out) - i could fix them all very easily,
but that's not the point newbies might not be able to !!
The point is, this is only a small list as i'm not using the box in question
at the moment, there were a lot more 'niggly' things. I can guarantee when
Mandrake 6 comes out all bar one of these will not need to be done on my
next install.
Need i say more...
Martin.
----- Original Message -----
From: Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 1999 11:41 PM
Subject: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake
> Dear folks:
>
> I recently spoke to my computer hardware dealer about upgrading some of
> my computer parts. He told me that once he was done he would install
> RedHat 6.0 for me. I told him I wanted Mandrake and this is what he
> said:
>
> "Mandrake is dead. The whole idea behind Mandrake was to integrate KDE
> with RedHat. Now that RedHat has KDE as an option, what's the need for
> Mandrake?"
>
> In response I muttered a couple of things about extra tidbits that come
> with Mandrake but I did not sound very convincing, even to myself. I
> think that Mandrake needs a new mission statement or manifesto; what's
> present on the website is no longer satisfactory. I want to stick with
> Mandrake in part because I believe that RedHat's former anti-KDE
> attitude truly hurt (or at least slowed down) the Linux cause and I do
> not really want to reward them for merely caving in to the pressure that
> distros like Mandrake put them under. Unless Mandrake Linux convincingly
> and clearly reassesses its raison d'etre and redirects its focus to
> present and potential members of the Linux community, I am afraid that
> this wonderful distro will indeed become irrelevant. Now it may be that
> the leaders of the Mandrake organization are clear about this, but the
> info on the web page
> (e.g. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fpolicy.html and
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ffaq.html ) does not reflect this in a
> coherent and convincing way.
>
> Best wishes to all
> Idris
>
