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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This Linux learning proccess would be alot easier if once we get Linux up and running, we could make a disk image. Then if we screw somthing up while trying to get the rest of the stuff running, we don't have to start at square one. I've been making ghost images with windows at various points during the install of all the different software,for years. It's a real time saver, and you can be a bit more bold about the stuff you are willing to try. I've been trying to install a cd recovery app after install, but I get an error about needing (init?) compiled into the kernel. I really appreciate articles like this because even though they are a bit whiney, they point out things that are hard for newer users that are probably second nature to the people who code Linux apps. Plus I get a laugh out of some of it.
thanks! O.S. News