Looks like Mandrake is in trouble too

[Lee]

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 23:02, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 March 2002 09:56 pm, you wrote:
> > Who could relay this part to Caldera... :)
> >
> > > The company's long term prospect are very good, but we are still paying
> > > for the "sins" of the previous management. Even when the company
> > > becomes profitable, it is important that users have a loud voice to
> > > remind management and investors that the "community" has been -- and
> > > should always remain -- a crucial part of MandrakeSoft's success. As
> > > we've said before, a company that is mostly controlled by business
> > > people & investors would be drastically different than if controlled by
> > > its users.
>
> I did not as I have caused enough grief recently there.

>>Hope they do well with 8.2. I've been using 8.0 since the Caldera Wars and 
have installed Mandrake 8.2 Betya 3 on hdb - and then promply uninstalled it 
after it locked up and blasted my MBR on hdaI, even it was instructed to 
install the boot on hdb. It also suffers from the same problems that it 
shares with 8.1, namely there is no way to access the floppy or cdrom drives 
from the desktop icons. Get either a "a no ltsdir" or "device is already 
mounted" (which it isn't) or my favorite " no such file (/dev/floppy, 
/mnt/floppy, /dev/cdrom, /mnt cdrom). I'm a member of the Mandrake Club and 
have asked the company why and how to set the devices up, no answer. I guess 
Mandrake 8.1 and 8.2 are like a French Renault - it either runs or it doesn't 
and no one why knows why it does either. On the bright side it did find the 
parallel port Zip drive and set it up doing install.

Lee