No CDROM issues mentioned at YDL Support
Gavin Hemphill
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Fri Oct 31 19:27:01 2003
you should install the 3.0 version then - the 3.0.1 version is to
support newer hardware and is far from stable.
G++
C Boughton wrote:
> I couldn't find any mention of CDROM issues in the support page. The
> first item on the list (currently) is to do with Panther. Maybe I was
> too late with my follow-up, I've been away from my computer for a few
> days. Any other pointers?
>
> Chris (and Bruce), my comments on YDL were made on the basis that my
> machine was not brand new (it's been around for 2 years) and so I would
> have expected many of the install issues to have dissipated. Further,
> the Airport has been part of the Mac offerings for longer than 2 years
> and it obviously there is a degree of trickiness with getting it going
> from YDL. I would have thought that some directions (notes) would
> overcome frustration for YDL users. Whilst some within the YDL
> community might feel that my attitude is rude and offensive, my
> experiences with both Red Hat and Debian have (to date) been excellent
> on a number of different machines starting back on RH 4.x. My
> expectations were based on the fact of my personal experiences and that
> of a computing department which strongly supports RH and Debian, were
> really good, plus the fact that YDL was based on RH. So, I was somewhat
> miffed when not only the airport issue occurred which (thanks to the YDL
> mailing lists) I was able to fix, but then something that I thought
> would be fairly basic was somehow overlooked. My immediate reaction and
> therefore the (offensive) response was one of "Do these people know what
> they're doing?"
>
> I'm not an idiot and I'm not inexperienced - I've developed software,
> managed projects and taught software engineering over the las 30 years.
>
> Regards.
>
> Clive.
>
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