[CS-FSLUG] Mandrake hardware support

[N. Thompson]

On May 30, 2004 8:05 pm, listmail at rotundus.com wrote:
> Quoting "N. Thompson" <n.thomp at sasktel.net>:
> > The download edition always seem to have something wrong with them and
> > its
>
> And you don't think that the powerpack version does?

I was hoping it wouldn't, how could anyone miss the kind of bugs that get into 
the final download editions?

anyway I've run into a lot of trouble with OpenOffice.org in Mandrake Linux 
10.0 and I cannot possibly fix the file associations, they are just too 
messed up so I'm going back to SUSE Linux.

Until I get a copy of SUSE Linux I'll be using Windows as even Microsoft can 
put out a better product then Mandrakesoft, I'll no longer waste CD's on 
Mandrake Linux.

> > BTW. Does the Mandrake club download edition have advertisements in it
> > during the installation process? What about payed links in the system
> > after its been installed?
>
> Mandrake Club basic gives you a few week headstart with the download
> release, silver and above give you access to some of the powerpack ISOs.

The problem with Mandrake Linux is that its so expensive, I liked 10.0 at 
first just like every other one of their releases until I found where all the 
the bugs were hiding and then it was terrible (just like every other release 
except 9.1). I wouldn't waste my money on a distribution that can't manage to 
put together a good _usable_ distribution and yet puts a price on it as if it 
were.

> David

I know those "no distribution is perfect" replies are comming so I'll take 
care of that now, SUSE works perfectly fine on my computer except for the 
delay with SUSEPlugger when I insert a USB thumb drive and hopefully that 
will be resolved in 9.1, if not then I'll know within a few days of June 4 
when the public FTP version gets released.

Since Mandrake nearly had me buying a copy of their distribution so many times  
before I found out about the bugs I'm to try every distribution for a week or 
two before even thinking about something like that and if I can't try the 
distribution then I will not buy a copy either.

BTW. Does SUSE have any sort of trade in policy where I can send in an 
unwanted boxed Linux distro (Xandros 2.0 professional) in exchange for a copy 
of SUSE 9.1 professional or at least get some sort of discount?

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