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Other than reading through the Mandrake website for known bugs, doing a google 
search, a search of Twiki, and running "MandrakeUpdate" periodically, I am 
not sure what else you could do to keep up with bugs and fixes.

I just received my 9.2 propack yesterday.  Installed fine, screwed up KDE 
icons (though not menus).  I installed it and used my 9.1 partitions without 
change, just formatting /usr and /.  Fixing the KDE icon (and menu?) problem 
is a matter of doing an update immediately.  You can also run "update-menus 
- -v" and try to recover/gain proper menus.

On Wednesday 12 November 2003 10:44 am, stefmit wrote:
[...]
> I pre-ordered and just got the 9.2 package, and I already have some
> questions:
>
> 1. I have been reading on this list and its archives about tons of problems
> with the new release. I have already run into one that some others may have
> experienced (doing an online update screwed up afterwards all the menus I
> had in KDE).
[...]
> 3. I used to use easy urpmi's web site to build additional sources for
> packages (eventually replacing even the need for CDs). I have tried a
> couple of 9.2 ones, from the same http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php I
> have been using for 9.1, but almost all the variations I have tried had
> failed one way or another (in the middle of updates, or not being able to
> contact sites at all, etc.). I am still successful in using the 9.1 ones

I have only added a couple sites via easy urpmi (plf and contrib in replacment 
of cdrom 7 at this point).  No problems for me.  Try a few different 
mirrors/sources before giving up on it.  Perhaps I just got lucky in my 
choices of these sources.

> [Q] Does anybody know if the 9.2 is still too "crude" to count on the easy
> urpmi repositories of source sites? Are those still unstable for this new
> release?
>
> [Overall-Qs] Does this whole 9.2 look really embarrassingly
> unprofessionally released to any of you? I have tried Suse/Novell 9.0,
> while awaiting for my 9.2 MDK package, and I was quite impressed with it
[...]

I do think that 9.2 is somewhat of an embarrassment.  A new user installing it 
for the first time is not likely going to get a favorable impression based on 
the many initial problems.  I have yet to fix my sound problems except for 
the short term, on a login-by-login basis.  

I too have ordered Suse 9.0 and will install it on my desktop.  I have MDK 9.2 
on my laptop.  I haven't tried Suse for a few years so I am expecting both 
problems and pleasant suprises.  I thought I'd give it a shot before Novell 
can have a chance to ruin a good thing with 
Commercial/Enterprise-over-focused nonsense.  If not for the problems with 
9.2 I wouldn't even have considered Suse.  I'll let them play out on their 
respective systems and let performance, ease-of-configuration/administration, 
and bug numbers determine my future focus.

If I can get sound working properly in 9.2, I THINK that will cover the last 
of my known problems. 

- -- 
"Our ship is in the hands of pilots who are steering directly under full sail 
for a rock.  The whole crew may see this course to violate our liberties in 
full view if they look the right way."
- --Samuel Adams, 1771
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