Open Source

Sunday, June 30, 2002

Mandrake 8.2: 85% Icky Poo (that's Bad), IMHO NOTE: There is no way that this doesn't come off as negative.  I so didn't want that.  I've always heard good things about Mandrake and shelled out $39.95 in the hopes that it would really work.  Sigh.  Hopefully someone at Mandrake will see this and use it constructively.  Making these things public sometimes helps. People I really respect have always told me good things about Mandrake.  So in my current quest for an operating system that will support my ThinkPad since Windows 2K does not (see here), I picked up a copy of Mandrake 8.2.  Rarely, if ever, has a Unix variant been so disappointing.  I've now installed it 4 times and I can feel a 5th time coming on later today.  My specific issues: ==> Read Story <== 5:27:57 PM