Hi,
I have just tried the third beta of Mandrake Linux 7.2, which I would qualify as
simply unusable for me. I have listed here some of the problems I've found so
far (I've been using it for less than a day):
(my hardware: an Athlon 500 with 256 Meg RAM)
- The cable modem network installation simply didn't work for me, while
configuring a local network without specifying anything (except to use DHCP)
worked without a problem.
- The mouse wheel (IMPS/2) works only in some apps (not even half of the gnome
apps I use). It worked much better in Mandrake Linux 7.0 (which I'm using now)
- The Netscape version 4.75 (I'm using the french version) shipped is the most
unstable version I've seen since the 2.0 betas.
- KLyx (a KDE word processor) makes xfs eat 100M of memory, so that my machines
become unusable for 5 minutes (until KLyx crashes). Once again the version of
KLyx shipped with 7.0 worked fine. Note that the document I'm trying to open is
about 2 pages long. Also, creating a new document doesn't work either. (either
revert to the older KLyx version, or simply don't ship it). Note: I'm not sure a
system with 64M (or even 128M) would have survived the memory hogging without a
reboot.
- Anytime I close a configuration app opened from DrakConf, I am left with a
watch cursor that simply wouldn't disappear (even after I close DrakConf).
- When I click on the window group settings for sawmill (sawfish), the sawmill
configuration applet hangs while eating 100% CPU.
- The change from libdl.so.1 to libdl.so.2 breaks some apps (like Matlab 5.1)
- In general the kde2 applications shipped are much too unstable to be usable
(maybe kde1 is not that bad after all).
-For some reason, gmix refused to start with my SB Live! ("no mixer found")
while other mixers are fine (again the gmix version in 7.0 worked OK).
- (this is more a feature request) add a 100 dpi font option in the installer.
There are more, but these are the ones I remember... So far, I find Mandrake 7.0
combined with Helix Gnome to be much superior to 7.2 (and 7.1 as far as I'm
concerned). If you want more details on the bugs I note here, please contact me,
I'd like to help make 7.2 usable for me.
Jean-Marc Valin
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Jean-Marc Valin
Universite de Sherbrooke - Genie Electrique
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