“This article concentrates on describing a basic Mandrake 9.0 installation and setup from a new user’s viewpoint, using nothing but default settings all the way through. I’ve also tossed in a few notes on how Mandrake 9.0 differs from Mandrake 8.2 and other previous Mandrake releases.” Read the article at NewsForge.
Mandrake 9.0 vs. Mandrake 8.2 for New Linux Users
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Now, if you don’t think this is a fairly typical new user reaction, you are wrong. I’m telling you, it happens all the time. This is why everyone who installs Linux for the first time ought to get a little hand-holding, ideally from someone who knows the point-and-click side of things instead of from a SuperGuru who will type in a lot of incomprehensible commands, then say, “Here you go. All that was needed was to parse the cat root slash dev etcetera file for eth 0 and pugle the forward identity-locking rehooliginator and symlink it to the libgc perl humongisooler module after a kernel decompile and basic repatch update. Nothing to it, just RTFM and you’ll figure it out!”
LOL i can sympathise with this,altho i never had much trouble installing linux mandrake( i think it was version 7 I tried) but the freeBSD experience very much reminded me of this paragraph and I think a lot of these OS’s are made overcomplicated and they are missing the main point that most users coming from a windows(or even BeOS) background would rather have the OS boot to a gui(of some sort even if it’s black&white safe mode) and proceed to tweek their OS from inside the gui by way of a control panel or a hardware manager of some sort! c’mon people this is the 21’st century after all!A home user shouldn’t have to know 17 weighty volumes full of unix gobbletygook to get a home desktop OS up and running!
c’mon people this is the 21’st century after all!A home user shouldn’t have to know 17 weighty volumes full of unix gobbletygook to get a home desktop OS up and running!
Amen!
I’m new to Linux…
Had a heck of a time installing RedHat 6 and gave up on Linux…
My brother-in-law only uses Mandrake and nothing else and convinced me to give it another try…
Downloaded Mandrake 9, installed it on an “all-in-one” Gateway…
Not only was it painless and fast to install…It found ALL my hardware even my video capture card and lets me use BOTH my graphic cards and monitors…
I’ll only keep up with Micro$oftOS because I have to support it for work…
As for me personally, I have a new OS…