On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 15:56, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > smaller apps with it to their doom. That's just today. I won't say > > that LM82 never failed me at all, but I will say that I have a very > > strong memory of LM82 being about as stable as the crust of the planet > > Mars. Plus, it was faster. > > Well, one pointed reason to upgrade from 8.2 is glibc. Everyone is moving/has > moved beyond glibc in 8.2. This means that most software being produced > today is not compatible with 8.2.
Very true. Which is partly why I run 9.1 myself; pulled along by the glibc nosering. > As for stability, I found 9.0 to be a pain due to instability and problems - > all of which I hoped to see fixed in 9.1. Most are and I am happy with the > stability and usefulness of 9.1. I can get work done, but I have to save more frequently, and the xfs journals work significantly harder to maintain filesystem integrity. Because of the crashes. Which means it's kind of like rolling the dice on every lockup. > rpmdrake...I rarely use the GUI interface. I am all for great GUIs and use > them for many things but a few things I just do not use GUIs for...rpm > installation or uninstalling is one of them. Since Redhat 5.0 I have used > and continue to use the CLI for rpms. That said, I did prefer the older > version of rpmdrake - everything was right there in one GUI. Now, you have > different GUIs depending on what you want to do. No likey. Agreed. > Speed. Well, on my desktop system I don't notice any problems, but on my > laptop, bootup is slower with 9.1 vs 8.2 but then, the kernel has changed > quite a bit since those "eldritch" days of yore with 8.2. I also run more > services - and KDE gets bigger and bigger with each iteration, but I like the > latest KDE vs that of 8.2 so I guess I'll suck it up. Very aptly put. I can't think of a better way to describe the endurance of the current situation. > > praedor > --LX -- ������������������������������������������������ Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk Linux Mandrake 9.1 Enlightenment-0.16.5-12mdk Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ������������������������������������������������
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