On Thursday 06 March 2003 17:22, Steffen Barszus wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2003 13:34, rcc wrote: > > definitely, Germany (=ISDN country) is the second largest market next to > > the US. I just don't understand how mdk can afford to surrender that > > market to SuSE. I've personally converted lots of people to Mandrake but > > I always am somwhat reluctant when I meet people with ISDN because of > > the rather suboptimal ISDN support of mdk. > > Yes and that is bugging me a lot. It seems there aren't a lot of people > using isdn on cooker, but I know there are a lot outside from cooker, > mostly people, that try to understand linux. Even Redhat is better on isdn > now then mandrake. And that there redhat is a full american distro. I cant > currently do more then try to help. I guess ISDN will get at least in > europe more important. Maybe DSL is more and more important for internet > connection, but isdn is not only internetconnection. I would not complain > so much if it wouldn't be a problem since 6.1 to have isdn nice and > running. It got better , but it is far from optimal. > Dial up in general seems to be problematic for mandrake. I don't know why > modems are detected if the users are using kppp or similar apps anyway and > have to configure it by hand then.
To run cooker you need a lot of cheap bandwidth. ISDN doesn't deliver that so running cooker is not likely
