Mandrake 7.2 release - a dud?

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

At the the Linux Demo days last Saturday, I was talking with the owner of 
Softpro about distributions. He no longer carries Mandrake because he had a 
large number returned.
Glenn Burkhardt wrote:
> Any try Mandrake 7.2 yet?  We had it on a machine here and there seemed to be
> nothing but problems with the new installation tools, and fancy system 
> wrappers.  
> 
> The installation utility allowed me to delete items to be installed, but 
> didn't handle dependencies correctly (left stuff in that required stuff I
> decided not to install).
> 
> The latest edition of 'rpmdrake' required considerable fiddling to get to
> work correctly, and often seg faulted, leaving the RPM database out of kilter
> (rebuild required).
> 
> More annoying, and what finally made me back off and use 7.1 for production
> systems, was the 'Aurora' startup/shutdown GUI - it seemed that most of the
> time I shut down or rebooted the system, the file systems weren't cleanly
> unmounted, and the system "fsck'd" more often than not, printing out lots
> of scary error messages.
> 
> The background graphics have gotten silly instead of elegant, but all that's 
> a 
> matter of taste.
> 
> KDE 2.0 looks good, and the device detection during install continues to be
> improved.
> 
> So it looks more like a beta release.  There are also many more update packag
> es
> on the web site than usual.  It reminds me of the 6.x RedHat releases...
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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