Re: [TCLUG:21372] Mandrake sucks.

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

you must be lucky, I too have the same mandrake-suck problems, their use
of PGCC is just too unstable for what i'm doing.. i've had the wierdest
problems with their libs, and even kernel problems.. like i have a bunch
of workstations that telnet to an old DG box.. at random times of
inactivity, they just drop the socket.. i re-installed with redhat 6.2
(was mandrake 7) and it works fine.  also, the habit of mandrake-soft to
put out useless utilities, like mandrake update.. I can't even use it
because #1, it's GUI only.. and #2, i have a port 80 firewall and need to
use a proxy. 

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Andrew Nemchenko wrote:

> whoo there I seem to disagree with you. I've been runing mandrake for at
> least a year and I've never had a problem with it. Maybe you did not get the
> real copy of mandrake but perhaps some third party give away cd. If thats
> the case then no wonder you are having troubles. I would me more than glad
> to burn you a real copy.
> 
> 
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Callum Lerwick <lerwick@tcfreenet.org>
> To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:12 PM
> Subject: [TCLUG:21372] Mandrake sucks.
> 
> 
> > Alright, I've been on a quest to run every distribution. I've tried a
> > few, Slakware, RedHat, Debian, they all have their ups and downs, but
> > never before have I touched a distribution that downright sucked. I
> > can't get anything to compile right on it, xmms wants libintl but it
> > doesn't seem to be there. There's no libXxf86vm or libXxf86dga even
> > though the headers are there, though I do admit these are beta XFree
> > 4.0.1 packages. And above all, they seem to have just plum forgotten the
> > C++ header files across two release versions. Sure, the compiler is
> > there. The library is there. But its kinda useless without the headers.
> >
> > Screw it, my workstation's going to debian. (please, no applause. ;)
> >
> > Mandrake sucks, spread the word.
> >
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