This subject is like the Energizer Bunny... It just keeps going, and going, and...
LOL I did a similar thing a couple of weeks ago. I came from RedHat land a whileback. Ran it for years.I switched to Mandrake about mid 2001, when Redhat just got flakey, and Mandrake was showing such great promise. A couple weeks ago, I got curious about how RH 7.2 was doing, so I loaded it up. when I did, I loaded it without Gnome, and then loaded Ximian Gnome instead. That part all ran fine, as did KDE. The wide variation in installation stability is interesting. How some parts are stable for some, and not for others. :) For me the breaking factor was the printing. Mandrake uses CUPS which supports my printer. RH doesn't, and I couldn't get my printer to work. I also thought that their installer came up short, not having much of what's included in Mandrakes installer. All in all, I'm much happier with Mandrake. :) As to Evolution. I thought the 1.0 upgrade was a piece of cake. You can get all the mdk.rpms from the cooker site. I just upgraded the following packages: evolution-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm evolution-devel-1.0-2mdk.i586.rpm GConf-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm gtkhtml-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm libdb3.3-3.3.11-5mdk.i586.rpm libgal18-0.18.1-1mdk.i586.rpm libGConf1-1.0.7-1mdk.i586.rpm libgtkhtml20-1.0.0-1mdk.i586.rpm The upgrade took only a few minutes. Remember to install these with rpm -Uvh. Also: I was on the gnome site last night, and Evolution 1.0.1 is out. Many bug fixes! It's worth looking at. I expect we'll see it on the cooker site soon. Ric Expert wrote: > > I have a dualboot system, Mandrake on the first partition > because the e mail, web and ftp server both work > out of the box, RedHat does not. > > The only use I get from RedHat is that > the compiler seems to work when I want to > install and run wxGTKwindows libraries, > and audacity audio editing software, > everything else in RedHat is broken, > but on my RedHat it is KDE's Dcopserver > that I cannot seem to fix, I can't even log > into kde session, I have to use gnome, can't > even run any kde apps! Bugger. (scuse my french) > > I can't get Mandrake's compiler to compile anything, > whether I stick with the install default or upgrade to > gcc3, but, I'm sticking with Mandrake because the > web, ftp, and e mail servers all work great straight > from the box. I will just boot into RedHat to use > my audio editor, but that is all, > so we share similar sentiments. > > On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:43 am, you wrote: > > Hi all tried RH7.2 today to try and get a working version of abiword > > > > what a pile of crap !!!!! > > OK it finds the graphics card immediatly which is good, it forgets that > > we dont speak american in england. > > cant find printers !!! > > gnome immediatly crashes on startup > > it screwed up the network config as I have to NICs, > > > > and here's the good bit, when it started the xserver, not only did it > > ignore my radeon VE but somehow it srewed the bios drive settings. > > I had to put in an old SIS card to get X working. > > > > So sorry guys your stuck with me !!!!!! > > > > Now I've got all the hassle of upgrading evolution to 1.0 again, and the > > dreaded libgal !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > > > bg > > richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Ric Tibbetts Linux registration number: 55684 If you want to help advertise Linux - point your friends to http://counter.li.org/
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