Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 19, 2002 12:45 AM
I have used Mandrake for a few years and I can say that's the worst release ever
Possibly in some regards, depending on your hardware.
I've found lots of bugs, the supermount CDs always crash, I can't use it to install software from CDs
So disable supermount, you can do it in Mandrake Control Center. It was worse (in some respects) in 8.2. Saving to a floppy would crash the machine. Unfortunately, when supermount doesn't work, it is a big problem, but when it works, it's cool.
also, the firewall doesn't work
The firewall does work, but in some circumstances it doesn't get configured correctly. Did you read the errata?
many things that came as default before it isn't now
AFAIK everything that worked before, still does
how they can call as a desktop product, if doesn't come with the standards plug ins on Mozilla
It does, it just doesn't *install* them by default. You could select them during installation or afterwards. Windows doesn't come with an Office Suite, how can it be an desktop OS (Mandrake ships with a few!).
that's ridiculous... I've been thinking about moving my distribuition, and I just don't use debian because the binaries are really outdated.
Come on, you want to change to Debian because closed-source plugins aren't installed by default???
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Re:This is the bugiest release ever!!!
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 19, 2002 12:45 AMPossibly in some regards, depending on your hardware.
I've found lots of bugs, the supermount CDs always crash, I can't use it to install software from CDs
So disable supermount, you can do it in Mandrake Control Center. It was worse (in some respects) in 8.2. Saving to a floppy would crash the machine. Unfortunately, when supermount doesn't work, it is a big problem, but when it works, it's cool.
also, the firewall doesn't work
The firewall does work, but in some circumstances it doesn't get configured correctly. Did you read the errata?
many things that came as default before it isn't now
AFAIK everything that worked before, still does
how they can call as a desktop product, if doesn't come with the standards plug ins on Mozilla
It does, it just doesn't *install* them by default. You could select them during installation or afterwards. Windows doesn't come with an Office Suite, how can it be an desktop OS (Mandrake ships with a few!).
that's ridiculous... I've been thinking about moving my distribuition, and I just don't use debian because the binaries are really outdated.
Come on, you want to change to Debian because closed-source plugins aren't installed by default???
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