> | - 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.
Why ship Netscape if it's unusable and people are told to use Konqueror instead?
I want to use Netscape because it handles my mail too and because I like it.
> |
> | - 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.
Could you stop telling me what applications I should use. KLyx is VERY different
from KWrite and KWord, it outputs LaTeX, which is what I want. Besides that,
what's the point of shipping an applications that doesn't do anything but crash
your system? Besides that, I'm using KLyx to write my master thesis and don't
want to change... And distro that doesn't have a useble version of it is out of
the question for me (unless, I can install the KDE1 version).
> |
> | - 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.
I actually has a crash on KControl the only time I used it... I don't believe
you can do anything useful with KDE2 right now.
> |
> | 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...
Well, I use 4.7 and it works fine for me (4.72 is OK too, AFAIK)... What's so
new in 4.75, except new bugs? I run helix gnome and it works much better than
the versions I've seen with both 7.1 and 7.2b3.
Jean-Marc
