> 8.1 was terrible for me and would hang all the time, i think my longest uptime > was a little under a day !! 8.2 rocks though, much much more stable, at least > for me, much much quicker too!!
Hi Mark, That's surprising to me. 8.2 has been nothing but a pain in my arse for the past several weeks... And, on hardware nearly identical to Jeferson's with software versions being nearly identical as well. The first thing I found was that the NVidia drivers suck. They were the source of the lockups I was having -- very similar to Jeferson's. As soon as I turned off the acceleration on the drivers, that problem went away. Then I started fighting with the package manager and all of the things that were missing, or weren't indexed properly, etc. What's really irritating about this was that there were really stupid things that simply didn't work: slocate wasn't installed, even though it used to be part of the standard installation that I chose -- and it didn't show up anywhere in the list of packages I went through (literally line-by-line) during the installation. Despite chosing the "Multi-media" option, XMMS wasn't going to be installed until I selected the XMMS development library... Then there have been appalingly stupid things like selecting packages to install that are listed as being on a CD, and having the package manager go out to the net to get them -- even though the CD is in the drive, and the drive is mounted.... Then I started fighting with the horribly broken installation of gcc (the pre-processor didn't match the gcc installation version so nothing would compile -- even a simple "hello world" type program). I just resolved this problem yesterday - nearly two weeks after installing 8.2 by manually forcing the pre-compiler to "downgrade" to the proper version. I couldn't do this with the package manager because it claimed that there were too many dependencies (wanting to remove nearly half of the applications installed on the system). After one of the reviews I read mentioned that the kernel options weren't written correctly to the make file for the kernel, I am still scared to try to recompile the kernel. And don't get me started on Mandrake's rushing this version to release before KDE3 was ready. Overall, this should have been an X.0 release, not 8.2. // George
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