Mandrake 7.2 release - a dud?

[glenn at aoi.ultranet.com (Glenn Burkhardt)]

Any try Mandrake 7.2 yet?  We had it on a machine here and there seemed to be
nothing but problems with the new installation tools, and fancy system 
wrappers.  

The installation utility allowed me to delete items to be installed, but 
didn't handle dependencies correctly (left stuff in that required stuff I
decided not to install).

The latest edition of 'rpmdrake' required considerable fiddling to get to
work correctly, and often seg faulted, leaving the RPM database out of kilter
(rebuild required).

More annoying, and what finally made me back off and use 7.1 for production
systems, was the 'Aurora' startup/shutdown GUI - it seemed that most of the
time I shut down or rebooted the system, the file systems weren't cleanly
unmounted, and the system "fsck'd" more often than not, printing out lots
of scary error messages.

The background graphics have gotten silly instead of elegant, but all that's a 
matter of taste.

KDE 2.0 looks good, and the device detection during install continues to be
improved.

So it looks more like a beta release.  There are also many more update packages
on the web site than usual.  It reminds me of the 6.x RedHat releases...
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