[ale] Mandrake 9.0

[Benjamin Scherrey]

I've been trying to find an open ftp site to d/l it since its announcement with no luck. Mandrake 9 
seems to be the first dsitribution to ship with the new gcc 3.x compiler as the system compiler. I'm 
curious as to whether they've dropped the python 1.5 from being a requirement (RedHay ships with 
python 2.x as python2 making python 1.5 be the default python executable - a completely useless 
and troublesome hack). That damned gcc 2.96 has been no end of trouble for me and makes 
linking to the shipped KDE libs impossible with a good compiler. I'm looking to jump off RedHat for 
good after all the trouble they've given me... and I really used to like them.

	Ben

9/28/2002 10:00:55 AM, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

>Justs thought I'd share.  Just did an install of Mandrake 9.0.  Nothing 
>really jumps out at me.  That's a good thing though.  The interface is 
>pretty much the same.  The X configuration is a bit more spiffy and is 
>pretty slick.  It tries to identify your hardware, shows you what it's 
>got, and let's you change it if you need/want to.
>
>I will say this, it was the most flawless install I've ever had, since I 
>installed SuSE 6.4.  I was about to join the Madrake Linux users club 
>with 7.3, but had enough problems I backed off.  I'll be dropping my $60 
>for 9.0 though.
>
>Very fluid install and nary a problem.
>
>Low end hardware as well, p200/65mb mem/2m video card.
>
>-- 
>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
>
>I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
>to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
>
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