On Tuesday 15 June 2004 02:31 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Monday 14 June 2004 10:18 pm, JoeHill wrote:
> ->
> ->Here:
> ->
> ->http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=7360
> ->
> ->Pretty positive overall, though I find his disdain for 9.2 inexplicable.
>  9.2 has ->been nothing but rock solid, not one lock-up.

>>> snip

> Same here Joe - I'm still running 9.2 on everything (3 comp Lan/laptop) but
> I'm getting ready to upgrade to 10.0 soon.

Ron, Joe:
I expect that the author was referring to the large number of updates that had 
to be downloaded to cure the shortcomings in 9.2 as it was originally 
released -- missing menus and a goofy urpmi come to mind, but there were 
others. Not a lot of fun, particularly on a 44K modem line. (Luckily, a very 
kind soul on the expert list sent me a CDROM containing the then-current 
updates, otherwise I might still be chugging away at it.)

Once it was updated, 9.2 worked very well here. (Well, until about two weeks 
ago, when something went terribly wrong. Probably a case of engaging the 
keyboard before my brain was in gear.)

Note that if you buy the CD's from Mandrake, as I do, they are current as of 
the official release date. But it takes Mandrake somewhere on the order of 
six weeks from the release date until they are actually shipped to the 
customers.

>From what I've seen here, updating 10.0 isn't that big of a deal, so I'll 
probably order the 10.0 PowerPack this week. And, when it gets here, I'll get 
the update CD from CheapBytes before I actually do the installation.

-- cmg


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