[luau] Mandrake 9.0

[Dana Smith]

Thank you! I will take your advice and get the 9.2 before installing. I will
be using this in my Ham Radio shack so I don't need to worry about a lot of
"office" type programs.

Dana

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> Sent:	Friday, February 13, 2004 6:50 AM
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> Subject:	Re: [luau] Mandrake 9.0
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> I don't know how much experience you have with Mandrake, but I had a lot 
> of problems with 9.0.  9.2 is a much improved version and I would 
> strongly recommend 9.2.  Plus, I assume you are not going to use your 
> laptop as a server, but rather as kind of "desktop".  The version of 
> OpenOffice included in 9.2 (1.1) is leaps and bounds better than 1.0 in 
> 9.0.  For this reason alone, 9.2 is much preferred over 9.0.
> 
> One of the best advantages of Mandrake is that you can get live CDs to 
> test its compatibility with your hardware before installation.  Mandrake 
> has its own live CD, but it is not nearly as good as the one that I 
> mentioned several times here--PCLINUXOS by Texstar.  Again as I 
> mentioned a couple times here, this is an improved Mandrake 9.2, and, 
> for desktop type use, I would much prefer it over the regular Mandrake.
> 
> As Scott mentioned in a separate post, you shouldn't expect any problem 
> with your Toshiba Portege.  But I would try to make sure that it works 
> OK but installing it onto my HD.  If you have problem downloading 
> PCLINUXOS, post your message again, I'll try to find some way to loan 
> you mine.  wayne
> 
> 
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> 
> Dana Smith wrote:
> 
> >I have a Toshiba Protege 7000 and am wondering if I can install Mandrake
> 9.0
> >on it without too much grief.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Dana
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