I downloaded and burned the iso images of Mandrake 8.0 about 3-4 days before
it was officially announced for release (so I probably got a partial beta).
It installed just fine for me and has been working quite well. I have no
problems except KDM displays all services as users along with usernames.
It hasn't crashed on me - the only hard reboots I have had to do is when
trying to run a game, heretic2, in opengl mode. That locks up XFree real
nicely and the only fix is a hard reboot. This would seem to be more a game
issue rather than a Mandrake 8.0 issue.
My system is a classic Athlon 700 on an AK72 mobo, ATI Radeon 32 DDR (using
hardware 3d acceleration thanks to DRI) with agp mode 4, 256 MB SDRAM.
I am quite happy. My ethernet card, a 3COM 900B, works better too (meaning
that it only takes a few seconds to get an IP address from my DSL router
rather than the 30 seconds or so required before).
On Monday 23 April 2001 13:19, Charles Bennett wrote:
> < SARCASM >
> I really love the Software Installer Error Message
> "Do To Some Errors, Some Packages Were Not Installed"
>
> Nothing like getting right to the point, but I am a little overwhelmed
> with information.
[...]
>
> > > I'm not very impressed with what people are reporting about their
> > > experience
> > > with the new stable release of Mandrake, version 8.0. Does anyone have
> > > anything *good* to say about it? I might end up just sticking with my
> > > 7.2 version, which I've updated with KDE 2.1.1 already. No sense
> > > dealing with unnecessary hassle.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Eric
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