[TriLUG] Fw: Mandrake 8.2 first look

[al johson]

Thanks for the "second opinion". I've been tied up this week with one thing
or another (I had eye surgery last Friday and the only people I've seen in
quite a while are eye doctors!! and the medication bills!!), so I haven't
had time to give the new Mandrake a whirl. I'd been looking forward to this
package for some time. Redmond Linux looks good on the surface, and probably
will be good IF (and it's a big "if") they ever get the bugs out of it (and
there are too many to mention). It was included with the last Linux Format
magazine issue, so since I had it, I thought I'd try it. But just about none
of the really important (to me!) software constantly crashed. Will give my
opinion as a novice user when time permits. At least I now have the
box. ---Al Johnson.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Sinner from the Prairy <sinner at escomposlinux.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Fw: Mandrake 8.2 first look


> A Dimecres 08 Maig 2002 08:57 pm, al johson va escriure:
> > A friend of mine was kind enough to send me a fairly exhaustive
> > description of someone else's experiences with Mandrake 8.2. I don't
> > know if all that he says is true or not, after all "you pays your
> > money and makes your choices who to believe or not believe". Still, I
> > thought it might be interesting for the Trilug group to read. ---Al
> >  Johnson.
>
> Just let me provide you with a second opinion:
>
> http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/05/01/0044222&mode=thread
>
> (...)
>
>   Newsforge.com: Mandrake 8.2 is boring -- in the best way from sde
> Wed, May 1st @ 03:10 PM Less than an hour after my review copy of
> Mandrake 8.2 Powerpack arrived, I had everything up and running,
> including my printer, wireless connection, and StarOffice, along with
> Mozilla and a number of popular plugins. It was about as ho-hum an
> operating system install as anyone could want.
>
> I have been using Mandrake for quite a while, but that didn't really
> matter. This was strictly a "stick the coaster in the cupholder thingie
> and turn the switch on" install. I chose defaults from beginning to
> end, mindlessly clicking on everything that was presented to me. I
> swapped coasters when the cupholder thingie opened up, then clicked
> "okay" after I put the next coaster (they have numbers) into the
> cupholder and shoved it back into its slot. In between I read The Wall
> Street Journal. On paper. The Journal was more exciting than the
> install.
>
> Because there's nothing to say about the Mandrake 8.2 install beyond,
> "it worked," let's look at the books that came in the box. The first
> one, and the most important one for new users -- and I mean a user
> either new to Linux or new to Mandrake -- is the Installation and User
> Guide. It is 371 pages (including index) of real, honest-to-bonkers
> user manual that tells you how to use all of Mandrake's
> graphical-install and setup tools and how to run many of the most
> popular programs included with this distribution. It has sections with
> names like "Office Work" and "Using the Internet." People who might
> have asked, "What's a Linux?" yesterday could read this book and know
> how to do almost every ordinary computer task in Mandrake after they
> were through.
>
> (...)
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Salut,
> Sinner
> --
> http://www.ibiblio.org/sinner/     Linux User # 89976
> Running on Mandrake 8.2 - Kernel  2.4.18-6mdk     Linux Machine # 38068
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