[plug] Mandrake - printing

Christian christian at global.net.au
Mon Feb 21 16:03:41 WST 2000


William Kenworthy wrote:
>         I find Brett's comment on Mandrake getting away from its rehat
> roots interesting, means that choosing it for compatibility reasons may no
> longer apply, and if it causes too much grief they may lose the audience
> they have built up.  will try a clean install and see if that helps,
> otherwise its back to redhat so i can actually use the machine
> constructively instead of wasting hours trying to get it back to where it
> was before!

My reading of your problem was that, quite simply, the upgrade broke a
few things... this tends to happen quite often in the software world. 
Perhaps Red Hat upgrades more smoothly than Mandrake but people still
have problems.  If you want a very smooth upgrade then switch to Debian.
:-)



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