1. kmail can use plenty of pop accounts. I have no idea why you should
be having any trouble with that. It's very easy.
2. You of course do have to be root before you can stuff like pick
which services to run. If you find this concept unacceptable, and you
like the way it works under Windows, then just dispense with your user
account and always log in as root. This is very insecure but no more
insecure than running Windows, which was your alternative approach.
3. Not clear on if you managed to install DrakConf, but to do it all you
need to do is "su", type in the root password, insert your 1st Mandrake cd,
change to directory where your cd is mounted and
rpm -i M*/L*/DrakConf*
You could also use kpackage or rpmdrake, but the above will work no
matter how little stuff got installed.
4. Then you can type in "DrakConf" by hand to run it.
5. It might be equally productive to try to figure out why all these
services fail on startup; certainly they should not be doing so.
How did you install? Recommended or custom?
What files does it say it's having trouble with locking?
The RPC clearly shows that it thinks it's supposed to talk to somebody
at startup, but this just isn't normal with a vanilla configuration.
Something made it decide to do this. Any idea what that might have
been?
6. To the other poster: Yes, you do "man xx" to find out what it is.
7. Before you consider switching back to Windows, I'd recommend that you
first consider Caldera OpenLinux;its installation is oriented towards
"workstation" or "server" or whatever. It has drawbacks (lessflexible than
Mandrake; not optimized for the hardware), but Windowshas these same
drawbacks.
