I have Mandrake 7 and Netscape behaves beatifully. With the
RedHat/Mandrake Netscape wrapper script I've had the most stable
Netscape since the 2.0 days. I mean that puppy is *stable* now.
And the icons are in all those goofy colors that they are supposed to
be in. What are you talking about with B&W?
Do you have a low color depth set, perhaps?
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I feel like a AOL user few years ago, but I can resist to add my 'me
| too!' to this. At first, I found Mandrake 7 to be a definitively hot
| linux release. But all the little glitch here and there also made me
| install back Mandrake 6. And I'm wondering if Red Hat 6.2 won't be ok,
| after all...
|
| Please, fix those pesky little things : Netscape on Linux is
| definitively behind Netscape on Win* or even, - apologize -, MSIE. So
| please, fix that kind of misbehaving B&W look 'n' feel and the kind of
| bugs : it's hard to advocated Linux vs. Win2K in that kind of context...
| ;o)
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| Trevor Farrell wrote:
| >
| > When I first installed it, I really liked Mdk 7.0-2 - real nifty new
| > installer, supermount, XFree3.3.6, the first graphical install to work
| > with my SiS 6326 chip, ... Yes, I thought it was really nice. Then the
| > cracks started to appear - sound card that worked under Ver 6 wouldn't
| > install under 7, Netscape had yucky b&w icons, cd burner not linked
| > properly, and wouldn't burn when it was, wheel mouse that wheeled
| > without help under 6 didn't under 7, partitioning tool buggy, expert
| > install option absolutely unusable - how the hell do you know what is
| > selected and what isn't? - the "magic 50%" install rule - it only fills
| > your partition to 50%, regardless of what you really wanted, ...
| >
| > Now, weeks later, some of the above are fixed and some aren't, but I put
| > it down to my "el cheapo" buying - PCchips motherboard, ide cdrw, etc
| > and lack of knowledge/skill - ie my fault...
| >
| > Today, I feel differently. We have had a Mdk 6 machine at work for
| > some time, and its supervisor today decided to install 7.0-2 . He
| > started by booting from a boot floppy, the install locked when it tried
| > to initialize the CD. So I suggested that he set the BIOS to boot from
| > CD (it was previously set to boot from the floppy, then the ide drive.)
| > and this time the install went nicely, until he hit the expert select
| > packages fiasco - he couldn't make any more sense of it than I could -
| > so he cancelled that and started again, this time being careful not to
| > select expert! It loaded the packages (why is Mandrake so slow doing
| > this, compared to red hat?) and then locked up as it started the X
| > configuration. Rebooted the machine, everything started up well, but no
| > X. At this stage my colleague threw the ver 7 cd in the bin, and will be
| > putting 6 back on the machine next week. (No - he doesn't want to know
| > how to fix it, or what went wrong.)
| >
| > Also today, I installed the BeOS 5 (Personal Edition) operating system
| > that I downloaded last night. It really just unpacked the files. I
| > rebooted the machine, and hey! presto ... BeOS! Funny, video worked,
| > sound worked, Cdrw burnt cd's, ... all with NO installation questions,
| > NO how-to's, No hassles. OK - so there is nothing written for BeOS yet,
| > and I'm not serious about keeping it, just curious, BUT, it proved you
| > can write a hassle free installer THAT WORKS!
| >
| > OK - back to Linux - the current attitude that if something didn't work,
| > it's because you didn't read the instructions or your hardware is faulty
| > IS SIMPLY NOT ACCEPTABLE to me any more - If it doesn't work FIRST TIME
| > it's because its broken, and needs fixing.
| >
| > The first Linux distribution that produces a hassle free installer that
| > works (no if's, but's, or maybe's - I mean works - full stop!)
| > WILL SUCCEED, all the rest will only be installed by enthusiasts (which
| > I still count myself among) and are doomed to their rightful resting
| > place in the garbage bin.
| >
| > Now, it's time for my big decision - Do I, like my colleague, consign
| > the Ver 7 install I have spent so much time on to oblivion, and go back
| > to Ver 6 because it worked, or do I persevere, and try to get 7 up and
| > running properly, or, perhaps, do I try RedHat 6.2, or just wait for a
| > distro with kernel 2.4 & XFree 4? I really don't know, and I really
| > don't expect anyone else to decide for me, I just know that my
| > perceptions of install problems will never be the same again.
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