Cotton Swab! Mandrake 8.0 was very flaky in my experience. Lot's of tweaking to get everything working right, and the installer SUCKED because it installed things I didn't want, and didn't install some things I checked. I switched back to 7.2 because 8.0 was so flaky. 8.1 looks like it's gotten the install right this time. It comes with Koffice 1.1, Kde 2.2.1, kernel 2.4.8 with patches that add support for 4 different journaling filesystems (XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, and ext3). Those are the major highlights of it. It's much more polished than previous releases too. It's definitely worth upgrading if you are using your box as a workstation, much more usable. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: colin schaub [mailto:colin at lautverschiebung.org] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 10:18 AM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 final released > > > out of curiosity, what are the issues redhat has with major > versions? and what does 8.1 add over 8.0? i've been running > 8.0 for a while now so does it make sense to upgrade? > > colin. > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Dave Sherman wrote: > > > > > I am definitely interested. I run Mandrake 7.2 right now, > and was just > > waiting for the first point release to do an upgrade. I > wasn't sure if > > Mandrake would have the same issues with new major versions that > > RedHat historically has had, so I didn't want to try 8.0. > But 8.1, on > > the other hand.... > > > > Dave > > - -- > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. > Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >