Re: Red-Carpet with Mandrake 8.2 Problems!

Hi there,

I'm on Mandrake 8.0 and the StarOffice channel recently disappeared so I
guess the lack of a StarOffice channel is across the board now.

I've got a Loki Demos channel, but I'd assume that's largely because
Loki existed at the time it was created. Now they are dead I doubt
Ximian have any reason to spend time on creating them. My Opera
channel contains a now out of date version of Opera (I removed
it, downloaded the RPM Opera provide and installed it using
Red Carpets "Install Local Packages" option without any drama).

The other channels I have are Linux-Mandrake 8.0, which is 
as yours with most things in miscellaneous. I don't find that
much of a problem, the keyword search makes it fairly easy
to find what I want on the rare occasion I need something
from there.

I also have the "Ximian GNOME Desktop" channel, a "CodeWeavers"
channel (which simply contains a version of wine from June 2001),
a "Ximian Preview" channel (which pretty much contains Ximians
replacement for GNOME control-center) and "Ximian GNOME untested"
which is where I get most of my updates these days (presumably
they turn up in Ximian GNOME Desktop at some point, but I've
already installed them.

Also I have the Ximian Connector channel which I haven't really
looked at (as work runs too old an exchange server).

I'd be interested on how you get on with Red Carpet and 
Mandrake 8.2, I only recently installed 8.0 and was tossing
up whether to get a more modern distro because it might
be supported better by Ximian than an older one. As it looks
now I have some extra stuff, but it's all legacy stuff of
little value. (StarOffice was version 5.2 before the channel 
vanished.)

Paul (who is quite happy with Red Carpet, for reference, a
lot of things I couldn't get to work myself, such as the
Nautilus Mozilla view just work with Ximian).

PS: I thought a themes channel might be a good idea. There's
quite a lot of themes out there and Ximian distributing a
select few of the high quality ones might be attractive. 
Maybe backgrounds too, I find it difficult to find much at 
1600x1200 resolution. Perhaps little "non-core" things
such as themes and backgrounds could be little bonuses
for Premium service users (perhaps I'd appreciate the
fast servers more if I wasn't on a modem ;)


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