Crappy Products Cost More!!

[tickticker]

>Does Mandrake have anything like the up2date service?  If so I may go that
direction this weekend.

they do kinda, but i installed KDE 3.0.1 on my mandrake 8.2 distro and not
including download it took me a whopping 20 mins to install.  Works great
too.  if you want 8.2, i can get you a copy and throw the rpms for KDE on a
cd and either directions or just help out.  if it's one thing i learned to
do well, it's install the latest KDE on a mandrake install as i've been
doing it since mandrake 7.1.

anthony

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Achtenberg" <toma@fh.org>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: Crappy Products Cost More!!


> I agree the RH problem is management.  KDE's web site doesn't name him but
does state the a RH employee makes the rpm's on his own time.
>
> I believe it is 1.3 Java that I have installed.  At least the up2date says
my system is 100% up to date (in their eyes anyway.)  I have iso's from
Mandrake from early April.  ver 8.1 I think.  Does Mandrake have anything
like the up2date service?  If so I may go that direction this weekend.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kurt Granroth [mailto:kurt@granroth.org]
> Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Crappy Products Cost More!!
>
>
> On Thursday 27 June 2002 01:58 pm, Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> > Would you settle for a product that is 70 to 80% complete?   How about
if
> > they left off one tire on your car?  Bernard's attitude is a horrible
> > example of bad customer service.  (If what you report is accurate.)
>
> To cut Bero a bit of slack, he creates the RPMs on his own time (mostly).
> RedHat gives him next to no support internally.
>
> Not that that excuses RedHat at all...
>
> As for your java issues with Konqueror, it depends on what version of Java
> you are using.  You need java 1.3 or better (the IBM version works great
> for me).  Java support in the upcoming 3.1 (not due until this Fall) is
> *much* improved over the 3.0.x series as well.
> --
> Kurt Granroth - "KDE -- Conquer Your Desktop"
> KDE Developer/Evangelist | granroth@kde.org
> http://www.granroth.org  | kurt@granroth.org
>
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