[TriLUG] Mandrake 8.1 out in Beta

Fred Stutzman stutzman at email.unc.edu
Tue Aug 21 21:01:31 EDT 2001


Did you experience any trouble with the Thinkpad mouse on the 8.1
install?  Just curious.

Fred



On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:

> A Dimarts 21 Agost 2001 12:37 am, vàreu escriure:
> > One word: solid.
> 
> I like how it sounds  :)
> 
> > I'm a Debian user, but for ResNet "rush" I needed a laptop capable of
> > running the Remedy problem tracking client, so just this once I bypassed
> > Deb and chose the Mandrake 8.1 beta, Raklet. The setup is slick and works
> > quite well, offering you partioning choices between jfs, ext3, and
> > reiserfs journaling filesystems 
> 
> über-cooooooooooooooool
> 
> > (I chose reiserfs for the thinkpad 600x). 
> 
> Any reason behind it? I would like to know pros and cons (no religious 
> instances) on those journaling filesystems.
> 
> 
> > I'd still like to get Debian running on the thinkpad 600x, but for now,
> > Mandrake 8.1 beta will do right nicely. Thanks again to the folks @iBiblio
> > for hosting a kickass mirror. =)
> 
> We are sooooooo lucky to have ibiblio a few jops away! And, yes, ibiblio 
> Rulez (thank you David M!)
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
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