[plug] Mandrake 7.2rc1

[Dennis Plester]

I've just downloaded (3 days!) the Mandrake 7.2 beta 2 and am about to burn
it onto a CDRW and upgrade. Is it worth the bother and upgrade from my
current Mandrake 7.1, or should I just wait for the final release and
download/copy it before upgrading.

I mainly use my PC for Web surfing, Star Office, CD burning, gaming and a
little bit of amateur  MySQL/PHP development.

Dennis Plester
Senior Process Engineer - Technical Services
Tiwest Joint Venture - Chandala
Brand Highway, PO Box 22 Muchea WA 6501
Ph: 08 9571 9303 (direct) Fax: 08 9571 9344
Email: dennisp at tiwest.com.au <mailto:dennisp at tiwest.com.au> 
(Home): den at iinet.net.au <mailto:den at iinet.net.au> 


	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Leon Brooks [SMTP:leon at brooks.smileys.net]
	Sent:	Thursday, 26 October 2000 22:00
	To:	Perth Linux Users Group
	Subject:	[plug] Mandrake 7.2rc1

	The RC1 is much more stable than the beta1 (as you might expect). If
you are
	running Mandrake 7.2, this is well worth the upgrade. It also has
several
	signifcant games packages (Chromium, bzflag, etc) added to it for
people who are
	``into'' those.

	There is probably going to be an RC2 to iron out the last few bugs
and settle in
	things like the official KDE-2, the security-fix Apache 1.3.14 and
maybe SDL
	1.1.6 before the official release, which activity is likely to push
the 7.2
	release past the current tentative date of 28 Oct, a little echo of
Linus'
	``I'll just let a precious few of these really good features in
after the
	code-freeze'' approach.

	-- 
	Tech support is a fine art which, once mastered, virtually ensures
	loss of sanity. -- Joe Thompson <joe at cstone.net>