[cumbria_lug] Mandrake 9.2

[Adam Pigg]

Been running 9.2 as of tonight :)

Tried an upgrade from 9.1 a few days ago but it went horribly wrong....It 
wasnt mandrakes fault though, i traced it to a bad dimm that was causing 
major corruption on my drive...so now i only have 256mb :(

Well, with the dimm out and a fresh install everything is looking good so 
far...i opted not to install kde from 9.2 and went straight to kde3.2 beta 
1...if you want the rpms for mandrake look at the story on slashdot, 
otherwise, if anyone wants them i can bring them to the next meeting.  They 
even installed with only 2 or 3 broken dependencies (because i missed 
downlaoding a few rpms like kdegames), which was nice.  Anyway, mandrake 9.2 
+ kde3.2 is very nice....kde 3.2 is very polished already and a big 
improvement over 3.1 (what did you expect a koffice developer to say, that it 
was crap? :o).

The only annoying problem i have is with the rpm signatures...i have to press 
Y each time i install something because the signature is invalid...will have 
to look at it later, its not a big problem.

Well, back to downloading all my cvs source code so i can start compiling 
again.

 C Ya
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 20:53, Mat Brunt wrote:
> Has anyone tried out Mandrake 9.2 yet?
>
> I tried it last night, not too sure what to think.
> For a newbie it looked quite nice, pretty graphics and all that, the
> menu's are intuitive and easy to use (I especially liked the one that
> allowed you to turn what services it loaded at boot on and off) but it ran
> quite slowly on my system and half the menu options didn't work.
>
> You'd click on something and it would just sit there saying Loading for up
> to 5 minutes (at which point I got bored and killed it).
>
> So Mandrake lasted all of 1 evening on my laptop before being rebuilt back
> to Red Hat (sorry Schwuk).
>
> Has anyone tried accessing their hotmail accounts through Gaim tonight as
> well?
> I'm sure my setup is right but it keeps telling me 'Protocol not
> supported'. And even though I can resolve the server name it gives me its
> not
> responding to ping.
>
> Mat
>
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