[linux-help] Re: Whazzup????

[John <jmresler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I apologize for calling you a moron,
    FWI, the previous Mandrake distro's have been ok, I used them only because
the dhcp setup was easy with my cable modem. I would probably go back to Redhat
if the DHCP daemon was a little easier to set up. That may end soon anyway
because I think I'm going to go to DSL and get a static IP address. I think the
other distributions are a little less prone to errors also but that's anecdotal.
Debian users tend to know more about installation so complaints about the use of
Debian seem rare, Redhat seems to have been somewhat overwhelmed by the recent
surge in Mandrake popularity and the rest ( eg. Slakware, S.u.s.e, Caldera) are
completely dependent on customer complaints to fix the install problems ( maybe 
a
gross exaggeration. ).

- John

Greg House wrote:

> Woop, sorry about that, I caught the discussion mid-thread.
>
> I am surprised that it didn't install m4, since so many other things seem to
> depend on it. But, frankly, I haven't been too impressed with Mandrake
> lately. Seems to have problems in everything except the "standard"
> installation methods. I've tried "upgrading" twice on my machine before and
> it's hosed things up both times. The last time it claimed to check for free
> disk space...then proceeded to run for like 16 hours, running out of space in
> /usr not too far into it and leaving the system completely unusable.
>
> I'm wondering if Mandrake has enough people testing things besides a normal
> install from CD...
>
> Greg
>
> On Wednesday 21 March 2001 22:09, you wrote:
> > Apparently you don't read very well Greg,
> > I said in the message that I did a network install. No cdrom. Moron.
> >
> > Greg House wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 March 2001 10:00, you wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, John M. Resler wrote:
> > > > > from kde I discover I don't have a package called m4. Does anybody
> > > > > know what the H**L m4 is? I can't find anything on it. Also, believe
> > > > > it or not,
> > > >
> > > > You're not looking very hard... typing "m4" at Google.com returns a
> > > > page full of hits about it.  If you're not using Google, you haven't
> > > > lived yet.
> > >
> > > Apparently not looking very hard on the Mandrake 7.2 distribution either.
> > > The RPM is on the main install CD of the set. It's:
> > >
> > >     /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/m4-1.4-17mdk.i586.rpm
> > >
> > > I'm surprised it didn't install it by default, lots of packages depend on
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
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