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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