Re: [Seul] Does Seul need any help... (fwd)

[JF Martinez <jfm2@club-internet.fr>]

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> > (For those who aren't up to date, Mandrake will behave pretty much
> > like Redhat 6.x except it'll have a couple more programs installed
> > and maybe a spiffier default gui setup. I haven't looked at it
> > recently, ymmv, our rpm's will work on it.)
> We will demo our version 7.0 that include a graphical installation.
> Our setup is pretty good and the hardware detection is performant.
> You can have more detail at http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/.

Their hardware detection does NOTHING.  It is just a nice Gnome front
end to the output of lspci and isapnp.  Of course this has its merits
because it puts all together under the user's nose and it uses a
database for translating PNP signatures into card models.  The
database is woefully incomplete and their tool is unable to identify a
Sound Blaster Awe 64.  I would have forgiven problems with an obscure
taiwanese clone but when you are unable to identify one of the most
common sound cards you refrain to use the word performant.

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			Jean Francois Martinez

Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
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