[TriLUG] Re: MDK91

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 09:44, H Brett Bolen wrote:

> mdk 9.1 is out.
> 
> I haven't tried to install it yet.
> 
> Has anybody?

I upgraded my Mandrake 9.0 machine to 9.1 earlier this week.  It
was by far the easiest and most trouble-free linux upgrade I've
ever done.

Mandrake 9.1 is very nice.  Xft and fontconfig are integrated everywhere
so everything has anti-aliased text now.  KDE 3.1 is very nice (I was
actually using it before).  My mozilla font problems (see
http://wtl.wayfarer.org/fonts/) have gone away with the new release.
(I was running mozilla 1.2.1 before and Mdk 9.1 includes Mozilla 1.3).
The new Galaxy theme, btw, is very nice.  (Galaxy is Mandrake's common
theme for both Gnome and KDE.)  Apache 2 is included now.  The only 
thing I had to do was make sure to recompile the NVidia driver for the
new kernel.  I had problems with 9.0 where the nvidia driver wouldn't
work.  I found out later that I needed to pass the "noapic" option
to the kernel command line.  Mandrake 9.1 let me set this up in the
installer.

The installer, btw, is very much improved (not that it was shabby
before).  Things are much simplified and there isn't an expert option
anymore (although, there are expert or advanced options at each stage
of the install/upgrade).  It was able to figure out that I had a 9.0
system and upgraded everything quite easily.  I give the installer
extremely high marks.

Overall, it looks like Mandrake 9.1 is the best Mandrake yet.  It's
certainly as good or better than any other distribution out there.

Cheers,
Tanner
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