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LG CD-ROMs Destroyed by Mandrake 9.2

Posted by michael on from the whoopsie dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The latest offering of Mandrake's distribution, 9.2, has been found to not only be incompatible with some LG CD-ROM drives, but to destroy them during the installation process. Mandrake have posted information on their errata page and further information can be found on this thread [google]. Along with over 350Mb of updates within a week of release, it's not been a good start for this latest release."

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  1. whoopsie?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    wow, just imagine if microsoft (M$ to you slashbots) had done this. The editors would be up in arms screaming at the top of their lungs how evil MS is.

    But when it's open source like this or the problems slashdot is having, it's "oops", and "oh well".

    Just another slashdot double standard for you.

  2. Shhh.... by kosmosik · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Do not tell Steevie(B@m$ft.org) 'bout it.

  3. 350Mb of updates within a week of release by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Cut to the chase:

    Mandrake 9.3 anyone?

    --
    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  4. Re:MOD THIS UP!!! I'M FEELING INSIGHTFUL. by fmaxwell · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Everyone Look At Me! Look At Me! I'm Special!

    That's why you rode the short bus.

  5. Mandrake is a horrid distribution by EMR · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I do not like this distribution at all.
    It always breaks on me..
    I installed a clean 9.2 install and it was working nice and fine.. And I was like *cool they fixed things*.. But then I installed all the updates..
    and Just booted up that system now and most of the menus are missing.. The configuration link is gone.. the system is completely broken.. Same thing happened with my 9.1 install after I installed security updates.. Well at lesast I can clean up 3GB of disk space now..
    (1.5 for CD images, and 1.5 for vmware install).