On Saturday 16 April 2005 02:23 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:05, Philippe Landau wrote: > > Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > >>I had heard that LE might be noticbly faster than 10.1 (beyond > > >>the 10% speed improvement in KDE). Can anyone confirm/refute > > >>through experience? TIA > > > > > > Absolutely. Everything feels more snappy. But mine is a fresh > > > install, wiping the entire hard disc of a very messy system > > > from multiple upgrades (8.2 -> 10.1). Don't know if that > > > matters, though. > > > > it runs well here too. > > much faster then debian/gnome/ubuntu for example > > on this average 2003/4 hardware. > > > > > And - as usual - lots of good new stuff while breaking many > > > things that worked perfectly in previous versions. Back to the > > > CLI... > > > > if you are lucky enough to have your hardware supported out of > > the box and enable the sources from PLF/easyurpmi > > it is the most complete distro for home users i ever tried. > > > > > And that damned, drunken penguin....Ridiculous. > > > > i saw it as love-drunk, enamoured welcoming clown, > > bringing some empathy to the often lonely user. > > of course this can get on your nerves, so maybe > > there is an easy way to choose a replacement. > > Well, all my hardware is supported, but I still use my 6 CD set > because I can't find Club Commercials (like RealPlayer, Adobe > Reader etc..) on the Club mirrors. > > My troubles - so far - is : > > 1. The USB subsystem doesn't work - still. I have to disable this > HAL thingy and mount everything manually. > > 2. The menu editor is defunct. Have to run "update-menus -v -n" > every time I add an application. > > On the other hand, it's the first time in all my Mandrake years that > I have sound without editing lots of files. All in all a great > improvement from 10.1 (my worst Mandrake ever). > > Kaj Haulrich. Kaj, did you append noapic and/or nolapic to lilo? This allowed my usb devices to be read. HTH -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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