Very easy to install, meaning that I was not fidgeting with adding one card
at time (NIC, SOUND, MODEM). It worked flawlesly so far. Some minor
annoyances with some apps but that is due to my newness. So far though very
nice and look fwd to future versions of the mandrake distro. Software
installation is easy and informative with short install descriptions. It
has a software/security update feature nothing too new.
-Moe
----- Original Message -----
From: "patrick" <patrick@llc.net>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 8
> On Monday 30 April 2001 07:07 pm, you wrote:
> > patrick wrote:
> > > has anybody tried out the new Mandrake 8. yet.
> > > i've got it and its the only game in town.
> >
> > I downloaded it last week and have it installed on a 450 MHz AMD K6-2 .
> > It is the first Linux version to work with my onboard Audio. It also
> > works pretty well with the onboard video. I am disappointed in the
> > fact that I haven't been able to mount a floppy device though and
> > mounting of a CD-ROM is flaky at best. I had tried Mandrake 8.0 beta 1
> > and I had no problem with Floppy or CD-ROM mounts, (Beta 1 had plenty
> > other bugs though). Mandrake uses supermount to auto mount the Floppy
> > and CD-ROM. Strange thing is that the mandrake RPM management tool
> > mounts the CD-ROM but I can't mount it as a user or as root. I've
> > checked the all the /dev/* file privileges and added myself and root to
> > the Floppy and CD-ROM groups. No luck and documentation on supermount
> > and Mandrake security is pretty sparse.
> >
> > I can't say that it is the only game in town if basic functions that
> > worked on earlier releases no longer work, even if they have added a
> > pretty install and new functionality.
>
> i dont any of the problem u are talking about but if there
> are fixes to be made they will make them. i think anti alising
> is awesome. i think the distro is the best just for this. have
> u checked out the mandrake control panel. ?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mike Richards
> > mrichard@tampabay.rr.com
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