[newbie] Mandrake 6.1

[Laurie Dare]

Hello from Downunder. As a happy and contented user of Mandrake 5.3 I
was a little tentative about 'updating' to 6.1. I had good reason! 6.1
has more bugs than my bed! For instance; the bootloader won't load LILO
onto hdb1, at least not the first time. Many of the program icons on the
desktop just look at you whwn you attempt to load the application...too
many to list. But the daddy of them all is the cute German/English
message..
   "The file as a revision date in the future. This probably means that
you system time is wrong or as been wrong at some point." Ratsarse!! The
installation program can't tell the difference between EST (Australian)
and GMT ( or UTC if you will)!! Consequently many files have tomorrow's
date, and the above message comes up each and every time one is envoked.
Jesus, if I'd wanted all these hassles I could have installed Winblows
98!! Why must you people release such buggy software? Haven't you learnt
ANYTHING from Gill Bates? I'm off to purchase SuSe (or is it sUsE hi )
tomorrow...nothing's cheap if it doesn't work. Oh, and don't waste your
time flaming me. I've already quit this list.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!

Laurie Dare

Re: [newbie] Compile ??

[Laurie Dare]

"James J. Capone" wrote:

 Are you able to compile in Visual C. I know we use the gcc program to
 compile in C . I have a friend at work that wants to know if the gpp
 compiler for Visual C++ is available in Linux. I am trying to get him to
 switch over and this is one of the questions I can not answer. Thanks

 James J. Capone

Hey James...tried Python? Who needs Vizyouall anything anymore anyway? g.


Laurie Dare
'Old Fart'
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