---Original Message----- From: David Douthitt To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/12/2001 7:50 AM Subject: [Leaf-devel] Linux Mandrake Steven Peck wrote: > I switched to Mandrake. I will use it for a few months to get more comfortable with Linux and then we shall see what happens. Which Mandrake? <sp> Mandrake v8.0 supposed to be great for newbies. Of which I am for Linux general system stuff. :/ Not for long though. I'm just now trying to set up a Linux workstation at home for personal use - that is, with word-processors, spreadsheets - you know, for REAL use :-) <sp> You being good and all with Linux, you might try Progeny, it looked really good, and when it installed, it was FAST and pretty. To many misc little bugs for me to spend time troubleshooting though. I just don't know enough Linux/UNIX theory to play and troubleshoot the stuff with any speed. I do plan to change that, just gotta find the time. I've heard that XFree86 4.0 is a bit buggy; the Cooker (beta) distribution of Mandrake has XFree86 4.1 which you may want to download. In my case, it would appear that Sawfish (formerly Sawmill) doesn't want to work right - I had to switch to soemthing else - which I needed anyway, since I only have (ONLY???!!!!) 56M of memory... <sp> P200MMX with 128MB Ram. I'll have to see if Mandrake has an update on their site. I don't anticipate getting to much done on this system before I move. I will say that I did have to load Progeny 3 times. The first 2 times, it bombed out on me, then it installed cleanly, 10 minutes to a complete install. My CD Rom drive died 1 week later, so that may have had something to do with it. It also would appear that 56M of memory isn't enough for X and Linux 2.4 - gak! I've started playing with the lightweights - I suppose they ARE the future for distributions like LEAF. blackbox was quite spartan; icewm is nice, and so is windowmaker. Haven't decided yet. GNOME is a hog; so is KDE - but if you've got the memory you might like them (I lean towards GNOME + Sawfish). <SP> My head will explode. To many choices :). My video card only has 4 megs, maybe I'll get a video card with more memory. XWindows lags a bit with KDE on it. The default for Mandrake is KDE, but GNome is available. Haven't tried that yet on the Mandrake system. The Progeny system I had setup looked really good, but various GNome applets crash sporadically. I don't know enough to troubleshoot it yet nor do I currently have the time. Soon though. Also, 56M is definitely not enough for Linux 2.4 + X + StarOffice 5.2 - GAK!!! StarOffice 5.1 runs fine under Windows NT with 64M - although it seems to have a memory leak - and is somewhat sluggish. For now, I'll stick to Abiword and Gnumeric - all of which come up MUCH more quickly than StarOffice - and don't require you to go for a cup of coffee waiting for it to start.... <sp> ABIWord looked pretty good. After I move, I will get the network printer setup and working on it and see what's up. www.progenyusers.org www.mandrakeuser.org -sp _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
