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I agree that Mandrake 8.1 is nice right outside of the
box. Easiest installation yet. I've been using it on
my dualboot Pentium II for three months and I
especially like the newer release of KDE that comes
with this distro. (The one where you can make KDE look
like OS X ^_^ ) Another thing I really like about 8.1
was the built in "Roaring Penguin" DSL support that I
had configured and running in just half an hour. Does
anyone has any recommendations on how to make my box
more secure? I don't have an extra box to use as a
firewall/router for masquerading, I was wondering if
there was anything I could set up right on my
workstation.
Two minor gripes about the install that are really
just related to the fact that my machine is old - it
*reeeeally* wanted to have me use XFree86 v. 4 which
made my primitive video card totally freak out. It
took a little time and some advice from PLUG people
but everything was working fine once I downgraded to
XFree86 v. 3.3.6. Also a glitch I haven't been able to
figure out - no sound at all. Supposedly there are
compiled kernel modules in the distro that support my
soundchip (Crystal CS4232) but the sound server
refuses to recognize them. I've thought about
compiling a kernel with ALSA or OSS but after reading
what Paul and Ian are saying here maybe I should hold
back on that.
-Adam Schaible
--- Paul.L.Snyder@gsk.com wrote:
> On 20-Feb-2002, "ian reinhart geiser"
> <geiseri@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 20 February 2002 10:13 am, W. Chris
> Shank wrote about [PLUG]
> Mandrake 8.1?:
>
> >> What are your thoughts on this? How difficult
> will it be to get these
> >> things working? I'm on the fence with a return to
> SuSE which I know
> works.
> >
> >Mandrake in my experiance is very nice AS LONG AS
> YOU CHANGE NOTHING.
> >no kernels, no non mandrake packages, and update
> only when you have to,
> and
> >use mandrakes own tools. If you can work in those
> constraints mandrake is
> >very solid and will run very well. It is a good
> desktop and easy to
> setup,
> >but even using non-mandrake kernels causes
> problems, and development is
> >completely out of the question. As soon as you
> start installing your own
> >software bad things happen.
>
> I'm currently running Mandrake 8.1 on my laptop, and
> can confirm the
> pain of upgrading the kernel. At the time, kernel
> rpms for the version
> I needed were not available, so I compiled my own
> from stock sources.
> I broke a fair number of things, the jagged edges of
> which I cauterized
> with vi. Most irritating was Aurora, Mandrake's
> putatively spiffy
> graphical
> concealment for boot messages. I can't remember
> what it was interfering
> with, but I had to rip references out of four or
> five different places
> before it was completely inactivated and I could
> actually boot.
>
> I'm still having two problems:
>
> 1. No matter what I do, I cannot get apm support in
> the kernel to compile.
>
> 2. Probably as a consequence, I can neither plug nor
> unplug the power
> supply
> while Linux is running. If I do, the system
> instantly locks up.
>
> Other than that, I like Mandrake well enough,
> perhaps a bit better than
> Red Hat. Nonetheless, I'm about to switch the
> laptop over to Debian.
>
> pls
>
>
>
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