[luau] Mandrake 8.2
Alvin Murphy
amurphy at hawaii.rr.com
Sun May 26 22:22:00 PDT 2002
from the perspective of a newbie, Mandrake is the clear choice. I
tried a few other distributions, primarily Red hat, but also Suse,
Caldera, Elx, and Corel. one problem with 8.2, if I understand
correctly, is that it is written primarily for 686 machines and so I
had a real mass when I tried to upgrade on my old K-6 machine. I
learned later there is a patch and a work around, but now that I have
8.1 working well again, I think I willtake a few breaths before
launching back into 8.2. I am not sure about the Win4Lin problem;
another part of the mess was uninstalling and trying to reinstall the
Win4Lin kernel upgrade. another problem was reinstalling my OSS sound
drivers: but that might have worked out well if I had only gotten the
basic install properly done.
I must say I would have stayed with the corel system if I had gotten
sound working; it was a very slick install, configured my home
network, found my Windows machines, etc. I do not know enough about
this subject to understand why it was so slickbut I would think that
Mandrake and others could learn something from studying the Corel
operating system. Pardon the errors in this,I am practicing with
xvoice. Bye
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