John,
Out of couriosity, what kind of hardware are you running. Processor, hard
drive, motherboard, printer...that kind of stuff. I'm very curious because
a lot of the behavior you're describing sounds like hardware
incompatibilities. For instance, I've got an AMD K6 in my home PC and I'm
running Mandrake 7.1 with 64MB SDRAM. This machine is so rock solid
running Linux my maintenence requirements are almost non-existant. While
my workstation at work, which has a Celeron 500Mhz processor and 128MB
SDRAM, and a lot of Intel hardware, also running Mandrake 7.1 is very
tempormental. Heavy on the mental part. It's not a very well behaved
machine. The installations are identical.
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Mark
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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 John W had this to say!
> 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.
>
