On Friday 11 Oct 2002 11:20 pm, you wrote: > 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>. > So you don't acce[t that the software houses learn from the myriad installations that are reported to them?
> 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. I fail to see how you class SoundBlaster Live and Audigy cards as ISA devices, or as substandard, non-compliant, obsolete or unknown hardware. Anne
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