Konqueror gives an error everytime you access an https page, probably because it was compiled for a different version of openssh than is provided in LM 8.0. The message given is "The process for $WEBPAGE died unexpectedly". Try for instance www.usaa.com. LILO keeps messing with my partition Ids. It's really annoying to go and download video drivers (nvidia) and java for Konqueror and who-knows-what-else-I'll-need. what if I had no network connection? shouldn't I be able to get more than half a system off my install? If the network connection is unplugged, system response time is horrible. There is no help for the new Software installer. It would be nice to have some, because 8.0's software update (unlike 7.2) is by default broken, not pointing to a valid updating site. I've poked around a little for the proper place, but haven't been easily able to locate it. For that matter, it isn't immediately evident how to get it to stop looking for CDROMs, and rather just work off of a local copy (which directory do I tell the thing to look for?). There should be an RPM site already loaded, since a newbie won't know where to look for RPMs. Where'd the root tux icon go on startup? I kinda liked him... Though Konqueror is put forward as the universal solution for browsing, it isn't there yet: * when printing through CUPS to an HP4M, starts printing on half-lines and ends on half-lines every other page. * java support I haven't found to be satisfactory. It just works in Netscape. It doesn't in Konqueror. * zooming doesn't always affect all text. The whole point to zooming is to be able to see unreadable text. * there's no CVSing or diffing through Konqueror Overall, it feels like an operating system designed to make CLI work faster, but leaves the GUI user hanging. Consider for instance the user help. The only good user documentation on the GUI of LM is out on www.mandrakeuser.com. And I still haven't seen anywhere that explains that the programs with "Drake" or "Drak" are Mandrake-specific. Yes, it may seem intuitive to you and me, but it hasn't been to others. Another example: finding the hardware address of the ethernet card. Any clues as to where to look? I had to (first figure out that eth0 was my ethernet device and) grep /var/log/dmesg (once I found that) for eth0. Where the information should be is in the Hardware/Hardware section of the Mandrake Control Panel. What I would like to see in Mandrake is an operating system that gives a usable GUI, by itself, from which users can start migrating to CLI for power using. But there isn't even any migratory help. A "click here for how to do the same thing on the command line" is nowhere to be found. Instead I have to read massive amounts of information on unix, when I'm only looking for one command. We have some context help. Why not context command help? Alright, I'm calling off the ranting dogs. twilit
