While I agree with most of the arguments presented by Hetz and other people, I still think that installing the latest Mandrake (current is RC3, and its possible that the release will be out in two days) is a good idea. the RC3 is considered release quality by Mandrake as far as I know.On Sunday 22 September 2002 10:53, Assaf Flatto wrote:To ease all your minds - i'll be bringing a burner and atleast a 100 empty medias in order to make copies for those wishing to have copies made for them.Sorry for bugging in - but do you REALLY want to install a .0 version of Mandrake??Remember - this will be the first Linux experience to people, and from many people's experience a .0 version is NOT recommended to newbies at all - same applies to Red Hat 8.0 (which still gives me lots of problems compiling stuff)
Now, why install the latest untested .0 version on a newbie's computer ? first its not really that untested - it's not like M$ software that was tested (no matter how exensivly) only in the company's QA labs: a Linux release was tested prior to its release by thousands of users - actuall, honest to god, users. thats usually what I usually call tested software.
Second - 9.0 has tons of newbie friendly enhancements - like the tried and tested DrakX installer where most changes since 8.1 were bug fixes, the new vastly improved and user friendly Mandrake Control Center, Mozilla with all the BiDi fixes, KDE 3.0.3 with all the bug fixes in, OpenOffice 1.1 (yes - more bug fixes), Kernel 2.4.19 with the new risky stuff turned off, etc. all in all - this promises to be the stablest Mandrake release ever - the release of three RCs only goes to show it IMO.
If I'm asked - I'll recomend to install the latest MDK9.0 release - especially for people who are not "power users". but if so decided, I will try my best to explain all the aspects of choosing to go with such a system and will offer by default the distribution chosen for the "official" install party distro (and please don't make it Debian - a windows user will not even survive the installation setup before running away screaming)
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