Confirmed, Mandrake 8.2 is the bollocks!

[hoojchoons]

The only close minded people I know of Zombiexxxx, are those guys like you who are either afraid or ignorant enough to install a true OS on their machines. As far as I am concerned, Linux and other *nix or *nix like operating system are superior by nature. I won't go into any details here (hell, it's an endless argument). You know that this is the case as well as anybody here does. If you don't then you should get educated. One way or the other, this is definitely the wrong place for you to be!

You're also wrong (and I believe you know that already) when you claim that Windoze works with a wider variety of hardware. You know that's not the case! Sure, windoze works with cheap peripherals (like GDI printers or winmodems etc), but who really needs stuff that don't work and destabilise one's system? LINUX WORKS AND RUNS ON A WIDER RANGE OF HARDWARE AS WELL AS DIFFERENT COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES NOT ONLY INTEL OR AMD PC'S!!!

You should also know my friend that we do have a social life (at least I do). Watching after the stability and security of our systems by using Linux, getting educated and informed, being open-minded in any sense doesn't necessarily imply that we don't have a social life.

Calum, I'm sorry man. I know that this topic was intended for Mandrake 8.2, but I had to say some things to this arsehole. I've tried both Mandrake 8.2 and Linux 8.0 on my laptop. They're both great distros!! Linux has really come a long way and is making impressive progress day after day!!  

[Calum]

no problem, i tend to fire away an angry missive in response to most of zombie534264231564735476's posts, but it does tend to kludge up the topics for people who actually want to read about that subject, that is the real reason i dislike zombie151531531's posts, he seems to enjoy making other people's lives difficult.

As for getting drunk, and crashing your Chev, zombie643783462748324, i say go for it!

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by Zombie9920:


 As for hotmail and .NET, of course it is going to send info to MS to log you in. That is how everything that you have to log into works(even this forum). Whoever is feeding you the crap is wrong for the most part..he is right about the messenger, but it does not send info to spy on people like how some people think.

there is one exploit (i cant really remember it) but it basically gets your hotmail password from the messenger when someone has special code in his site but you have have a certain thing changed in the registry for this exploit to work

[fruitbat]

I run my box with Mandrake 8.2 and Win98 (Gotta test Samba servers somehow) and I had a great XPerience when XP came out.
1: Insert disk
2: Boot machine (A-Bit KT-7, 768MB RAM 1200 Athlon etc)

next come various screens leading to black screen with Progress bar along with something like "Windows is preparing install" and on go the brakes. Yep, it just sits there with progress bar doing its thing. How long? Long enough to cost me 12 hours of tinkering and the price of an XP disk with a screwdriver through it.

Anyway, Mandrake 8.2, where to start? Well how about the flawless install on the desktop box. ALL hardware found automatically, GeForce 2 MX400, SB128PCI, SCSI rewriter, NIC, SCSI scanner etc. and sets the whole lot up for me.

Evertything worked out of the box. NVidia 3D drivers installed gives OpenGL acceleration and KDE3 rpms put the pretty (and powerful) front end on (read the README files, it's a doddle).

LAN and net config setup during installation so work straight off and the mount points icon in mandrake control centre has all the NFS shares on my server connected in under 2 minutes.

Then, just when you think it can't get better, the wizards! Shit they're good. During install choose expert mode and go through the servers section looking for Wizards_lib-xxxxx in each server category.
Once you're running you can set up servers e.g.  Postfix, Apache, Bind, ProFTP and Samba etc. with a few mouseclicks to the point where they're functional and ready to be tweaked.
Remote admin through Webmin from any machine on the LAN, RAS dial-in or VPN make administrating the overall set-up a doss with no need to run into the office everytime we need to do something.

Believe me, prior experience with NT-4 / 2000 was a sodding nightmare in comparison to this! AND..... more bloody apps than I could ever afford to match in M$.

And that's where the bottom line is. For value for maoney XP will never match Mandrake
8.2 or SuSE 8 (we have both) and don't pull the bash it 'cos it's M$ as we have XP on a laptop in the office (OEM installed) as well as 98 and 95.

A side not is that I decided to put 8.2 on my laptop a 3 yr old K6-2 500 / 128MB RAM machine and it runs at a good useable speed. Try that with XP. Even the Lucent Winmodem works at full speed and KDE3 as well.

In all I now have Mandrake 8.2 on a Samba / NFS server, 2 desktop workstations and a laptop - Legally! Good enough for a tight fisted bastard bastard like me to join the Mandrake club with Star Office 6 into the bargain.

GOD I LOVE LINUX!