On Friday October 11 2002 01:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 11 Oct 2002 8:27 am, you wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 October 2002 09:29 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > Good Grief people. Why are you upgrading to 9.0 when you have 8.2
> > and it works (unless you really want to deal with a new distro's
> > issues)? New releases always have problems (8.0 probably had the
> > least of the new ones), and IMO are really NOT for use on my
> > primary machine. In a month or two it might be ready.
>
> Although I have ordered the disks, after reading of the problems I
> had come to the same conclusion. Of course in the bad old days we
> accepted that you never buy release x.0 of anything, always wait for
> x.1, and I guess Mandrake is probably no different. And I totally
> accept the reasoning you give.
>
> Anne
Then you're both have a different approach and understanding than I
do. IMO, 9.0 is nothin but 8.x upgraded and fixed. 9.1 will be 9.0
upgraded and fixed. What falls behind, far as I can tell, is those
that aren't fixed or upgraded, often hardware, more often users.
'Course those two catagories alone account for 95% of most problems in
the first place.
Every six months when there's a new release, there's always the 5%
proclaiming that <insert last or older release> was <great/good/
better>. This <insert current release> <doesn't work/is worse/not
ready/rushed/'accept the idea' to not use a '.0 release'/, or sux>.
Seems all a terrible release has to do for some people, is to age six
months for users to catch up and begin believin it's the 'best', or at
least <great/good/better>. So, if you find yourself believin 'every
body knows', or listen to the rest of the 5%, then wait 5 months to
install 9.0. For my part I'm already workin/usin 9.0+
The 'No sound in LM9' situation in Mdk 9.0 is to save the 5% and some
others, from themselves. ISA devices (most of which are sound cards)
are no longer automatically probed, and setup. This is mainly caused by
even more numerous complaints from unknowing users (who are also
buyers) of substandard, non-compliant, obsolete, or unknown hardware
(mostly motherboards, sound cards) causing hardware freezes/lockups
during auto detection.
If your reaction to my little rant above includes "but it works great
with Windoze", then you understand the M$/hardware situation much
differently than I do. Y'allsMMV
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