hiho all....
i just booted mandrake 8.1 again - after about 2 months of using windows2k
i felt like
giving mandrake 8.1 again a try.
when i booted up 8.1 the first time after installing i was really pleased
by the new kde 2.2 and all
the apps it came with.
just a few minutes ago i thought about applying all the security and bugfix
updates - and i tried mandrake-update.
mandrake-update, it didnt work with 7.2 and 8.0 (at least for me) - i had
thought that meanwhile mandrake
would have managed to get it working - but no.
i created a new source for the downloads - chose a server and i got a list
of all the updates that were available.
so far so good - but :
1) why the hell is the window which lists all the updates so SMALL ?
on my screen the list of all the updates is about 2cm in height - with
scrolling arrows next to it.
its not possible to resize the list - to see more packages at one time,
so there are only about 5-8 visible at a time.
this is really annoying.
2) i choose the packages that i want upgraded - and it begins to search for
the packages - after a while it replies "an error
occured while fetching package xxxxx"
a) why cant it tell WHICH error ??
b) i made sure to use the correct server - i tried logging manually in
the server - and i checked the proper directory - i
also checked whether the regarding file was definitely on the
server - and it was !
despite of this mandrake-update isnt able to fetch the file - this SUCKS !
3) sometimes i am not able to start mandrake-update at all - it loads
partially - leaving me with a grey main-window
and its not possible to close it any more - so i have to kill it every
time by opening a console - suing to root and then
killing it by pid (if i want to kill it with the pid monitoring
program under X i certainly get "u are not permitted to kill this app"
- why cant it ask for the superuser-password allowing me to kill it
out of X ?? - instead it forces me every time to open
a console and killing it as superuser - this is time-consuming,
complicated and frustrating !)
now please dont tell me things like "download the rpm file manually and
install it using command line rpm"
because i know how to handle rpm command line - but why use it if there is
a X-utility that does it with a
few clicks ?
i know people are proud of being able to use console - and i am too - but
if there is the possibility to safe time and make
things easier and faster - why not use it ?
another thing i hate about the "desktop"-linux is that there is no browser
that can view websites properly.
regardless which fonts/font-size/browser i use - i always get bad-looking
fonts - not so smooth like ms-ie shows.
has anybody of u been able to get mandrake-update working - or to get a
browser that shows smooth good looking fonts ?
dont misunderstand me - i like linux - and i am using a linux server that
handles mail-dns-samba-antivir-ftp-telnet and so on.
but this is console - and it works well...
but what does not work - in my eyes - is the X-part of linux....so - are u
experiencing the same problems i do - or is it just my lack of ability to
get things working smooth under X ?
should i use gnome rather than KDE ? - are apps working better under gnome ??
i mean - regarding desktop-functions/programs windows is far superior to
linux. i currently run win2k and it runs perfectly stable - all programs
are running without any problems - under linux i am running into endless
loops, requiring me a high amount of time to - for example - simply install
a program (everybody of u knows : dependencies that require dependencies
that require........etc.....)
i can understand that this is frustrating newbies that use linux first time
- as it does me - and i am using linux now for about 1.5 years. (although i
was using more console than X)
so - please dont flame - we�re on the same side ;)
i am just really sick of non-working apps under X that *should* make life
easyier - but dont do.
all suggestions/advices/opinions are welcome ;)
--quaylar
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