I have been using Linux since Slackware was released as 2.0 in the 1994 days. I remember when the Kernel actually went 1.0. That being said:
I have been running BETA 4 since it was released. I have been bouncing between RH and MDK for the last 3 years and could not settle and don't know if I will now. However, one thing I have noticed with MDK 9 changes in 9.0 Gold is that hardware that was never showing up in the KDE Control Panel is now there. I run a Thinkpad T21 PIII 800, 512MB RAM, 48GB 5400RPM IBM HDD, Lucent Orinoco, Firewire2go PCMCIA Card, Maxtor 80 GB Eternal HDD, HP DVD200i installed in an ADS Firewire case, Olympus C3020Z Dig Camera and a Panasonic DV-400 Digital Vid Camera.
ALL Hardware now shows up in the Control Panel. This is the FIRST time in any Linux release that this has happened. I prefer to use /proc to check out hardware information but knowing that it is finally there is a good thing. It always irked me that the sound card in my laptop never showed up or that my Firewire devices that are assigned SCSI address' never showed up. They are all there now.
Nice. Liquid Motion that worked with BETA 4 (don't remember the KDE release for the BETA vs. Gold release) works with the Release version. My hibernation worked fine as usual, as is normal for me, I had to uninstall the Xine rpms that were installed by Mandrake and reinstall xine from src so I can read encrypted DVD's. For the FIRST TIME the "Upgrade Packages Only" option in the installation worked. However, the "live_update" was still broken and cannot span CD's. Maybe it will work if all RPM's are in a directory on the HDD.
I have been running BETA 4 since it was released. I have been bouncing between RH and MDK for the last 3 years and could not settle and don't know if I will now. However, one thing I have noticed with MDK 9 changes in 9.0 Gold is that hardware that was never showing up in the KDE Control Panel is now there. I run a Thinkpad T21 PIII 800, 512MB RAM, 48GB 5400RPM IBM HDD, Lucent Orinoco, Firewire2go PCMCIA Card, Maxtor 80 GB Eternal HDD, HP DVD200i installed in an ADS Firewire case, Olympus C3020Z Dig Camera and a Panasonic DV-400 Digital Vid Camera.
ALL Hardware now shows up in the Control Panel. This is the FIRST time in any Linux release that this has happened. I prefer to use /proc to check out hardware information but knowing that it is finally there is a good thing. It always irked me that the sound card in my laptop never showed up or that my Firewire devices that are assigned SCSI address' never showed up. They are all there now.
Nice. Liquid Motion that worked with BETA 4 (don't remember the KDE release for the BETA vs. Gold release) works with the Release version. My hibernation worked fine as usual, as is normal for me, I had to uninstall the Xine rpms that were installed by Mandrake and reinstall xine from src so I can read encrypted DVD's. For the FIRST TIME the "Upgrade Packages Only" option in the installation worked. However, the "live_update" was still broken and cannot span CD's. Maybe it will work if all RPM's are in a directory on the HDD.
