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Yes, I was being sarcastic.

BTW. It's called humor....or pulling the corn cobb out.....:|
For the record, Mandrake is my favorite distro by far. They have an office in California...and I'm still using 8.1 on my samba server.
And this is the OS forum, so I won't reply to anything else regarding this fudd. Sorry for the attempt at laughter.



 
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.

It did nothing for me. It was like going from 2000 to XP on a machine that otherwise worked fine in 2000.

I have to say that if you "fear" Linux, Mandrake 9.1 is dumbed down to the point of SuSE, but does have package installation control during the setup so in that sense it is better than SuSE.

Also, if you had hardware issues in the past (like others have mentioned earlier), Mandrake does address them. Firewire seems to work fine as does USB 2.0. My VIA AC'97 sound still doesn't work (didn't in 9.0, but does in SuSE) and I still have to install nVidia drivers to get even the most simple games (Armagetron, Quake 3 and TuxRacer, for example) to work well.

One of the things that bugged me the most was Runlevel 5. There's no log in for Root and no way to manually log in any user without an icon. That would be fine if the PC was someone else's machine that I only had to admin on occasion, but this is MY machine and I'm constantly installing and changing things and I don't want to have to change the Runlevel to 3 any time I want to log in as root, but I don't want to leave the Runlevel as 3 because it's so inconvenient.

Is there a way to add root to the log in?

Never mind... I'm back on 9.0 and if I have to upgrade, I guess I'll go Redhat. 😛
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.
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Never try to "upgrade" an rpm based system. In my experience things never work out, especially with mandrake.
 
Haven't seen this many winks 😉 and rolling eyes
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in a thread in quite a while; maybe some of us DO have a sense of humor after all 😀

By the way, thanks for the linkies you guys...I was having difficulty getting more than 5 or 6k/sec before those.
 
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.
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Never try to "upgrade" an rpm based system. In my experience things never work out, especially with mandrake.
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Like I said.... I did a fresh install and I still hated it. 😛
 
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.
Click to expand...

Never try to "upgrade" an rpm based system. In my experience things never work out, especially with mandrake.
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Like I said.... I did a fresh install and I still hated it. 😛
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Anyone else have any likes or dislikes about this?
I was thinking I was going to have something fun to play with this weekend but if all anyone has to say about it is bad things than perhaps I will forgo my fun until RH9 gets released.

-Spy
 
Originally posted by: Tiger
They've only got 6 mirrors up now and they are jammed.
I'll wait a week or two.
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I got them mirrored on my server:
ftp: ftp.mindwarp.net port: 9000 login: download password: download

I set a 4 user limit and 75 gigs of total traffic limit so good luck. I also throttled the bandwidth at 75k/s, but it should be consistant.


 
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.
Click to expand...

Never try to "upgrade" an rpm based system. In my experience things never work out, especially with mandrake.
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I've upgraded Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux systems on more than a few occasions, and never encountered any major trouble.

Just to be clear, you can't reliably "upgrade" from one distro to another, but from one version to a newer one is reasonably well supported. In general, upgrading UNIX systems is not rocket science, and is reliable by design.

IMO largely better than on Windows operating systems, so I disagree with your upgrade warning.
 
Originally posted by: manly
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
Originally posted by: jonnyGURU
Well... last night I installed Mandrake 9.1 as an upgrade to my 9.0. That was a disaster so I did a fresh install. Hated it, so now I'm back on 9.0.
Click to expand...

Never try to "upgrade" an rpm based system. In my experience things never work out, especially with mandrake.
Click to expand...
I've upgraded Red Hat Linux and SuSE Linux systems on more than a few occasions, and never encountered any major trouble.

Just to be clear, you can't reliably "upgrade" from one distro to another, but from one version to a newer one is reasonably well supported. In general, upgrading UNIX systems is not rocket science, and is reliable by design.

IMO largely better than on Windows operating systems, so I disagree with your upgrade warning.
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Well OK, maybe not all rpm systems, that was a bit broad of a brush. However, the last eight times I've picked the upgrade option in mandrake, the installer ended up breaking the distro.
 
Here's another beef.....

No "expert" set up option. The "newbie mode" is the only option. No manual partitioning, etc.

What's the magic keystroke to get to an expert set up mode? I swear... I felt like I was using SuSE or something. 🙁
 
I'm having a weird problem with Konqueror on my new 'Drake install.
I have a RedHat partition (ext3) mounted in fstab, along with the cdrom and floppy...if I enter the path to the mounted device (i.e. /mnt/redhat/) Konqueror works as it should; however, if I actually try to browse to /mnt, it hangs. I actually have to kill the process.
My RedHat install has KDE3.1 on it and doesn't have this problem.

Anyone else seeing this?
 
Well, it seemed to install/work just fine for me. I'm not a big fan of urpmi though, I'd rather use apt-get/rpm. Oh well.
 
originally posted by: Flatline
I'm having a weird problem with Konqueror on my new 'Drake install.
I have a RedHat partition (ext3) mounted in fstab, along with the cdrom and floppy...if I enter the path to the mounted device (i.e. /mnt/redhat/) Konqueror works as it should; however, if I actually try to browse to /mnt, it hangs. I actually have to kill the process.
My RedHat install has KDE3.1 on it and doesn't have this problem.

Anyone else seeing this? [/b]

Have you tried accessing the RH partition thro' CLI (rxvt, etc..) Do you get an error message?
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Originally posted by: Flatline
I'm having a weird problem with Konqueror on my new 'Drake install.
I have a RedHat partition (ext3) mounted in fstab, along with the cdrom and floppy...if I enter the path to the mounted device (i.e. /mnt/redhat/) Konqueror works as it should; however, if I actually try to browse to /mnt, it hangs. I actually have to kill the process.
My RedHat install has KDE3.1 on it and doesn't have this problem.

Anyone else seeing this?
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I can't really figure it out myself, but I *just* had that same sort of problem (in debian). And as civad suggested, I was able to work around it using the command line.
 
Originally posted by: Flatline
There is a "Custom Partitioning" checkbox for DrakX; that's where you get manual partition setup.
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I didn't see it during the install.
 
i just got a copy of vmware and mandrake 9.1, and i'm not a hardcore linux user so my initial impressions are that the install was very good (found my usb card, samsung lpr, and tape backup). for a noob-intermediate user, installation saved a lot of time compared to setting up debian/slackware.

i like the gui, the new kde and gnome looks great. oh, and vmware kicks butt - those people who use it know what i mean. 🙂

i give it 9/10
 
I know I can get around the Konqueror problem with the command line. And my partition is mounted just fine.
What I was asking was if anyone else was seeing the same behavior. If so, that's a pretty serious bug.
 
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