On Tuesday 27 August 2002 04:25 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: > Interesting things are happening when you rsync cooker :) > > Assuming no need to back out what's being added: > > 1. Mozilla 1.1 will be in the final release; > > 2. OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 ditto and the package is excellent - it solved > all the problems I had tried to work out for myself using the generic > OOo installations and, despite bashing at the MandrakeSoft version for > hours, I could only find two or three minor problems; > > 3. It looks as though the infamous 'purple and yellow' colour set is > being replaced as my Gnome icons were unexpectedly updated today and > very impressive they look; > > 4. Somebody has finally managed to work out how to support USB PalmOS > handhelds 'out of the box', the fiddling around required to get them to > connect and sync being a problem ever since such handhelds started > appearing; > > 5. The Control Centre has loads more options, and drakconf2 is detecting > just about everything I have; > > 6. I really think this will be the best Mandrake release yet. Although > bugs are still being knocked out, and there are the inevitable problems > with arcane setups, I'm impressed with what's going on. > > The only real demerit is the firewalling; InteractiveBastille is > deprecated and MandrakeSoft is using a combination of msec, shorewall > and iptables plus its own front end as part of the Control Centre, which > I dislike and which could well completely confuse new users. However, > there's still time to fix this. > > Alastair Alastair, how do you set up to rsync with cooker? I have not done this before and I see draksync is available but not sure how to set up. Only one US ftp site on the cooker list. Any advice or where is manual? TIA -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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