Mandrake 7.2 release - a dud?

[Jerry Feldman]

I had generally recommended Mandrake to new Linux users because it is 
generally easy to install. But, when it becomes difficult, then it no 
longer has an advantage over Red Hat. Personally, I prefer SuSE.
David Lapointe wrote:
> There have been many little things which annoyed me to various degrees in 
> Mandrake 7.2 but overall I am satisfied.
> 
> I have noticed that on infrequent occasions that directories are not 
> unmounted.  For example, " /misc could not be unmounted".  Wait. /misc is not
>  
> a mount point how could that happen?  
> 
> Then Matlab 5.2 broke  with the upgrade.  That was fixed by loading some rpms
>  
> from MDK 7.1.
> 
> I got rid of aurora, but I can't figure out how to eliminate the music upon 
> KDE2 startup.
> 
> 
> On Saturday 27 January 2001 03:19 pm, you wrote:
> > > At the the Linux Demo days last Saturday, I was talking with the owner of
> > > Softpro about distributions. He no longer carries Mandrake because he had
> > > a large number returned.
> >
> > What's their current best seller?  Good distributions seem to come and go. 
> > I was very happy with Mandrake 6, 7.0, and 7.1.
> >
> > And, after Brian Conway's note, perhaps my biggest complaint can be
> > disposed of by delete 'Aurora'.
> >
> > So many distributions, so little time....
> >
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>  .david
>  David Lapointe
> We think in generalities, but we live in detail
> -Alfred North Whitehead
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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