Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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The story is like a story about a guy who was waiting for a buss. The buss never came. A very sad but totally uninteresting story.
If you want something out of the box on some specific hardware then pay for it.
I think Osnews should rather accept storys bye people who are willing and able to write about how they managed to make things work using this or that linux distribution on this or that hardware.(if they had problems)
Those of you who install those distroes write a story about it telling readers about the steps you had to take in order to make it work.
Installing Mandrake9.0 on a Thoshiba Tecra 8000 with a Belking PCMCIA card (ADSL) I had to add 2 lines to a file.
(All the information on the Belking CD)
Also I had to adjust the screen to 1024*768 and to 65000 colours 16 bit where the 16 bit was the important point.
Well using the Mandrake Control Center (Resolution).
Did I loose my nerv beecause of that. No.
If think Mandrake simply is a great distro moving in the right direction.
I have installed and used various distributions since 95.
A great journy seeing how fast it all improves also for the destop.