[wellylug] I have installed Linux Mandrake 9.1, Now what?

[Rose McGillicuddy]

Damon Lynch wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 08:58, Peter Jones wrote:
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>>While agreeing with Rose about not switching distributions too easily,
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>The main thing to realize is that any distro (and even windows) can be
>hard to install if you don't know what you're doing.  Last night 
>Ricardo got his video, sound, modem, dvd watching, office tools,
>internet, cd writer, security updates and more all set up (on a laptop
>too).  This was possible because I helped him, and I know how to
>configure these things using the graphical tools and what to do when
>they don't do all that is necessary sometimes.  All in all, it didn't
>take long.  Windows can sometimes take a lot longer to set up than that,
>especially on newer hardware.
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>Mandrake has a few rough edges, but basically the graphical tools work
>very well most of the time, with faults sometimes, and occasionally not
>well at all.  Experience helps a lot in getting them to work.
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This is interesting.  The person who tried to get X going in Mandrake 
9.1 for me is predominantly a RedHat user.  Does it mean that Mandrake 
9.1 might still be possible on my hardware, seeing as some things in 
Mandrake 9 did work okay?

Rose