Re: Mandrake 7 GPL

[wulfie <nospam [at] wulfric7.co.uk>]

Hmmm, no kernel source - the price you pay for all the toys. And
incorrectly set up paths for netscape, docs etc. Ho, hum.
The honeymoon is over, fdisk here I come.....

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Al Hudson wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, wulfie wrote:
> 
> > I can see where you're coming from, but view it through Mr(s) Newbie's
> > eyes. The column of lights reasuringly winks from red, amber to green as
> > the stages complete. The installer asks sensible networking questions -
> > samba config & nfs config. Ditto for the X config and sound config parts.
> > And finally, the funky KDM screen at login.
> 
> I can't talk about the newbie install, because I didn't do it, but I want
> an expert installer available too :( I might have to start changing distro
> soon.. poo.
> 
> I like Drake for the number of sensible auto-magic features it has, but I
> don't know anymore. The distro->distro upgrade route up versions of
> Mandrake doesn't seem to be quite as 'stable' as other distros, might have
> to start rolling my own again. It also broke all the changes I'd made to
> my init sequence, which was a right pain in the bum.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> alex.
> 
> 
> 
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