[wellylug] Mandrake 9.2 random review notes

[Simon Eatough]

Hi Jonathan
 Any chance of a copy of Mandrake 9.2 for me too, in exchange for 6 blank cd´s 
?
Cheers
Simon


On Monday 20 Oct 2003 9:41 am, Jonathan Harker wrote:
> Like the releases before it, Mandrake 9.2 is a big improvement on the
> previous version. For testing I did a complete fresh install on a dual boot
> Windows machine.
>
> Finally, a buch of hardware that I could only use in Windows now work
> flawlessly:
>
>   * Firewire external hard disk
>   * Assorted USB pendisks and MP3 player
>   * Lone IDE hard disk on a Fasttrack RAID controller
>
> I suspect this is mainly due to the newer kernel.
>
> Start up and shutdown now have snazzy progress bar screens like Windows XP.
> This is not a feature for us tech-heads, but it's really nice for Uncle
> Bill or Jane the receptionist. That's really where a lot of the improvement
> lies in this release - the version numbers of things like Mozilla, KDE, and
> Gnome haven't gone up by much, but work has gone into the details. Mandrake
> are aiming squarely at the workstation/desktop with 9.2
>
> If you want, you can post me 6 blank (700MB) CDs and I can post you back
> three of them with 9.2, as long as I don't get inundated...!   :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan.