I recently upgraded Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2 and found it to be very troublesome. For instance, just opening, looking at and closing MenuDrake got rid of 80% of my menu-icons. Not too great that...
After trying to get everything back to work as before for a while, I decided to bite the bullet and did a complete re-install.
This was the best thing I could have done, the new version runs a lot better now. The hardware detection has again improved. Even my brand-new USB-camera (HP photosmart 935) and new all-in-one printer, scanner, copier work perfectly. Without installing anything I can scan from within the Gimp (or any other program). Great stuff Mandrake.
I absolutely love it that whenever I hook up the camera, the camera-icon (FLPhoto2) just appears on the KDE Desktop automatically.
Most used programs are:
Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution, Gimp, OpenOffice.org 1.1 and Netbeans 3.5.1.
Oh, a tip about the updates: you just have to set the setup-sources yourself, initially, only the CD-set you used to install is set as a source. I removed the setup-disks from the list and added one of the mirrors, and that way, I keep the system up to date perfectly.
I have used RedHat 6.4,7.2 and 8.0 before, but I've never really missed it since switching to Mandrake.
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Posted by: canckaer on December 02, 2003 04:45 PMAfter trying to get everything back to work as before for a while, I decided to bite the bullet and did a complete re-install.
This was the best thing I could have done, the new version runs a lot better now. The hardware detection has again improved. Even my brand-new USB-camera (HP photosmart 935) and new all-in-one printer, scanner, copier work perfectly. Without installing anything I can scan from within the Gimp (or any other program). Great stuff Mandrake.
I absolutely love it that whenever I hook up the camera, the camera-icon (FLPhoto2) just appears on the KDE Desktop automatically.
Most used programs are:
Mozilla Thunderbird, Evolution, Gimp, OpenOffice.org 1.1 and Netbeans 3.5.1.
Oh, a tip about the updates: you just have to set the setup-sources yourself, initially, only the CD-set you used to install is set as a source. I removed the setup-disks from the list and added one of the mirrors, and that way, I keep the system up to date perfectly.
I have used RedHat 6.4,7.2 and 8.0 before, but I've never really missed it since switching to Mandrake.
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