[wellylug] Mandrake 9.2 released / Paradise

[Damon Lynch]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 04:06, Brenda Wallace wrote:

> 
> I used ximian red carpet for a while, but found too many conflicts with
> libraries, and i'm now happier with texstars gnome stuff.

I know that experience.  I updated to ximian's evo 1.4.4 at work, and it
freezes every-time it scans the imap server for new messages! 
Mandrake's packages don't do that :)

> 
> there are many skins, themes and wallpapers that appear on texstar..
> lots of prettys for my cubicle.

My (windoze) workmates liked the gnome backgrounds and gdm photos I put
on my PC.  Much better than their staid machines :)

> 
> texstar also have things like gaim, which is updating frantically now
> that msn is shutting out older clients. i can just get the latest gaim
> rpm'ed every few days, and hopefully i can always  connect. i like the
> convenience  of urpmi :-)

Yup, urpmi is really cool.

BTW, it appears the transparent proxy problem now fixed (at either the
Mandrake or Paradise end of things).  I'm happily downloading the ISOs
via bit torrent, using Paradise cable.  It's running at approx 17kbs for
now, which is better than nothing!

Damon



> -- 
> Brenda Wallace <brenda at wallace.net.nz>
>