HOLY CRAP . . . just installed Mandrake 8.2

[Michael]

Do you run Ximian's own release of Gnome? Typically it looks a lot better
than what comes with the distros and the Red Carpet program does a nice
job upgrading things as needed. If you're impressed with Evolution maybe
they have some other stuff you'd like to try.

I'll also say this about Linux and cd-r/rw's.. I've never burned a coaster
under Linux. I've used several very different machines, with different
distros, different cd-r/rw drives, and different cd-r/rw blanks and I do
quite a bit of burning and I've just never had a bad burn. Under Windows,
even on the same machines, coasters are common but never with Linux. I
never use any graphical tools to burn under Linux and for the most part
haven't needed to. For data discs it's as simple as telling my burn script
what iso or directory to use as the source. Music cd's and vcd's can be a
little trickier but if there is a problem it won't be with the disc
burning process.

The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

;):):-):):-):):-)8')
Michael McGlothlin <mogmios at mlug.missouri.edu>
http://mlug.missouri.edu/~mogmios/projects/

On 22 Jun 2002, Bradley Miller wrote:

> Typical long day at work.  I decide to knock off at 4:45 and play with
> Mandrake install again.  To do this, I have to yank the old drive, swap
> cables and put things back together.   While doing this I realize that
> in the bios there is a boot setting, for either Primary-Master or
> Primary-Slave.  Hmm.  I try things out and put my new drive in as
> Primary-Slave.  Mandrake (7.2) has a fit saying it can't do something.
> I swap drive snd which one to boot and it works.  Ok, a little progress,
> now at least I don't have to unplug cables.
>
> I had attempted to D/L Mandrake on two PC's during the day.  I
> downloaded it from my NT box and burned a coaster . . . no particular
> reason why.  It just wouldn't boot.  I decided to poke around a bit more
> in the Mandrake box.  It had found my HP burner and was happily waiting
> to burn something.  I decided to give another download of an ISO a shot
> and after ?? hours I had an ISO to burn.  I used CD-R-Toaster (?) . . .
> something to that effect.   That program was about as intuitive as the
> space shuttle . . . another glaring "I'm a techie and don't care how it
> looks/works/etc..." type of program.  After burning a CD in a foreign
> (to me) OS, I decided "ah, what the hell" and thought I would try to
> upgrade my previous Mandrake 7.2 install.
>
> Well, it worked just as advertised.  After all the modules/etc... loaded
> up and were updated I was greeted to something 1000% better than I had
> been playing with.   I just got done setting up Ximina Evolution and my
> jaw hit the floor.  KDE Mail was "ok".  It was about like my older
> Eudora, but still lacking a little power.  From what I can see so far of
> Ximian, it flat blows again my Eudora and looks to be a replacement for
> Outlook (which I don't use).  This right here could be the changing of a
> few minds at my office (well soon to be former office, as I'm buying the
> company I work for).
>
> Anyway . . . I just wanted to let you in on a "3 year old newbie"
> experience with Mandrake and Linux in general.  This is a far cry from
> getting a PC to boot up with something that didn't say "Microsoft" on it
> back in 1998 when I first bought Red Hat 5.2 from CompUSA.