Could it possibly be that there is something wrong with your installation,
not Mandrake?
I've run 7.2 longer than you have, on six systems varying from uni-processor
P-II's to SMP P-III's. Not a one has exhibited the problems you report.
Since others are not reporting similiar problems, logic would indicate that
this is something specific to your installation, not Mandrake itself.
Did you upgrade from 7.x to 7.2 (which is a BAD idea)?
Did you attempt to retain old 7.x home directories, which can be
problematic?
Have you tried performing recent upgrades or software installs?
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of John W
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 2:07 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake is losing it
Wow I guess Mandrake has really lost sight of what Linux is. I have been
running 7.2 for about two weeks and have lost my Gnome desktop, tried
several
thing to recover that to no avail. I cannot print anymore Cups seems to be
hosed and I cannot install the update because it is unsigned?(whatever).
KDE2
seems to slow dramaticallyu the longer it is open. If I log out of a window
Manager Xserver dies and I am dropped to run level 3, maybe thats normal I
don't know. I wrote to Mandrake about all this and maybe releasing a stable
version rather than competeing with RedHat for the highest version number.
Their response and I qoute "We are working on a six month version and 8.0 is
scheduled for April." Perhaps I should go back to Debian. Being a newbie as
I
am it is better running RH or LM as most literature is written for these
platforms.
--
John Wheat
