On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
| 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 Netscape version 4.75 (I'm using the french version) shipped is the
| most unstable version I've seen since the 2.0 betas.
Have you tried Konqueror from KDE2?
On my PC, it runs Mandrake docs by default, and I am very happy with that.
|
| - 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.
Strange application. I even don't download it anymore. Use KWrite or KWord.
|
| - In general the kde2 applications shipped are much too unstable to be
| usable (maybe kde1 is not that bad after all).
Which applications do you mean? KOffice is in Beta stage, for sure. I would
say that it is even in pre-beta stage.
But, Konqueror is very nice and stable. KMail got significant impovements,
and I use it every day. KWrite/Advanced Editor is also very stable. No
crashes in KControl, looks like everything was fixed.
|
| 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
I have Mandrake 7.0 with several upgrades. KDE2 -1.94 (build 0911)
About Helix Gnome. Key question: which browser you will use?
Ok, you can load Konqueror from Gnome, but that means you have to keep 2
Window mangers/Desktop environments on same computer.
Netscape 4.7 is "too outdated". Mozilla is very buggy and slow.
Microsoft still not ported Internet Explorer to Linux.
I am just curious...
--
Vadim Plessky
