I installed Mandrake 8.1 in about 45 minutes since it became available and if I wouldn't have moved this pass week it would have been up for over 3 months with out a hitch. I can't say the same about WinME. I spent 12 hours yesterday with my son-inlaw getting his system reinstalled because of multi-virui. I had multiple problems with sound and modem, and only after searching the internet I found the drivers and was able to get the basic system installed. Today he is installing all the other programs that he uses.
Gary On Monday 07 January 2002 16:06 pm, you wrote: > Marc wrote: > > Unstable?? Are you kidding? > > > > My windows installation had all kinds of problem not recoqnicing > > hardware, conflicting irq etc etc. MDK 8.1 runs very smooth without any > > prblem at all. So MDK 8.1 is very stable. > > > > > > marc > > > > On Monday 07 January 2002 06:59 pm, you wrote: > >>On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Davor Cengija wrote: > >>> I'm having a really hard time with this new 8.1 > >>> distribution. It is very unstable and unpredictable (something > >>> I wouldn't expect from Mandrake Linux). Anyone experienced > >>> similar problems, say: > >>> > >>>- kicker dies without obvious reason > >>>- konqueror segfaults with libstdc++ errors in debug stack trace > >>>- the X server freezes while the rest of the system works fine (say, > >>> internet connection). However, mouse and keyboard are dead (since > >>> they're controlled by X, of course) > >>>- xemacs segfaults with different errors, in different states > >>> > >>> There are some other problems as well. I'll skip pasting stack > >>> traces, etc for now. > >>> > >>> The strange thing is that everything works just fine after > >>> reboot (like in windows :-). So, I'd say that either kernel or > >>> some standard lib (glibc, libstdc++ or whatever) is > >>> broken. Sometimes one error in say konqueror is followed by > >>> xemacs' segfault. > >> > >>Check your hardware. This sounds suspiciously like a failing CPU or case > >>fan. I've been running 8.1 for about two months now and it has been > >>solid. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > Are you using standard KDE from mandrake or the souped-up version that > does fast loads? It sounds suspiciously like you have one of the > sensitive systems and you tried the second option. > > I have one 8.1 installation that would have four months uptime except > that I had to move its location from room to room and shut it down for > that purpose. The only things giving me trouble are mozilla and > Aethera, which have to be killed periodically, Others with some > interesting video cards or with video vs NIC IRQ conflicts have reported > some problems, but rarely. One of the nice things about this distro is > that you can set PnP BIOS to yes with most machines, but you had better > set ACPI to "No" > > Civileme
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