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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