I think Mandrake has the best distro overall (why else would I be running it?),
BUT they have the worst sense of graphic appeal...
Everything Mandrake has either created (DrakX, DrakConf, Aurora), or recently
re-branded (KDE2) works fine, but looks like a purple fisher price toy.
-John Reddersen
I rsync'ed (using Ron's no_rsync.pl) last night and installed all the new stuff
(I'm running Cooker) and boy did KDE2 take a step backwards in the latest
release. Sorry I can't give the version, but I'm runinng in Win98 at the
moment.
Stuff that did work, but now doesn't:
In the panel, half the
I reported this same problem last week and got no responses, so feel lucky that
people were at least reading your post...
I caused my problem doing an update, not the initial install, so it's something
that's changed from Beta2, which is what I originally installed.
My solution (not a very good
Some extra info on my problem with MandrakeUpdate not installing the packages.
I started MandrakeUpdate from a shell instead of the icon, and it seems the MD5
sums on the packages off of RPMFIND aren't good. rpm tells me the same thing
if I do an "rpm --checksig package.rpm".
-John Reddersen
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I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate today. If I select a set of
files to upgrade and click "Do Updates", it downloads the updates, says
preparing to install, then then window closes and the rpm's are never
installed! I finally figured out where MandrakeUpdate stores the rpm's as it
dow
This is going to be a long and strange one...
Two days ago I decided to do a network install of Cooker directly off RPMFIND's
ftp site. Everything worked great, though it took a few tries on the mouse
setup to get my USB IntelliMouse to work. So, after that install I had the
following drive set
