Smart move all around, I'd say! Welcome to Mandrake.
L8R, Dude!
On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, you wrote:
> Hello, I've just switched to Mandrake from Storm (because of their
> bankruptcy), and am pretty impressed. I bought the 7.2 Complete.
> Everything works; sound, printing, and all the other biggies. GNOME is
> good and intact, with all the fixin's, so I'm quite pleased. However,
> being far from a techie, I can't seems to figure out why certain things
> seem different. The only 3 things that seem to be different are these:
>
> 1) In diskfree, it says I have something called /proc/bus/usb, that it
> contains 1.07 GB, and that it is 100% full! I did not create this
> partition, nor have I ever seen such a thing on any of my other distros I
> tried.
>
> 2) Having switched from Storm (and Corel prior to that), I am used to the
> debian package manager. I found where the package manager is (rpmdrake in
> DrakConf), but can't see the option to change my sources.list. Is it a
> config file tucked off somewhere else? Does anyone have any good
> recommendations for Mandrake software sources?
>
> 3) My monitor (MagView 19" VM900E/986M) won't run in 1600x1200 for some
> reason. I put on the same settings as I had with Storm before (Voodoo 3
> graphics + one of the generic monitor settings + 32 Bit color), but that
> didn't do it. Is Mandrake 7.2 using XFree86 4.x? If so, maybe it's just
> because this is my first XFree86 4.x experience, and I need to monkey
> around.
>
> Otherwise, Mandrake seems to be a great distro (and not bankrupt, to boot!
> ;-) ).
>
> Thanks for any replies,
>
> -Brad Lathem
