Comment on Mandrake 8.0
I downloaded the ISO for both the install and the extended stuff. The
install went great, but then I have a pretty plain vanilla machine to
install it on. However, I was disappointed in the KDE that was
installed. I didn't see the familiar KDE panel, menu and etc. While
browsing through the menus it seemed very Gnome centric even in
KDE. Couldn't find the usual KDE configuration screens etc. Also
Mandrake used to put the icons on the desktop for the CD Floppy disk
and Printer. All that came up was the Trash and Home icons. However,
Gnome desktop was fully configured. One wonders if Mandrake is
pushing Gnome by limiting KDE.
Also for some reason after I had it running for about an hour, it started
writing to my hard drive and locked up the mouse and keyboard this
continued for several minutes and did not let up. I finally had to just
shut the thing down (power off).
The one other annoying thing was that it configured my video so that
the visable screen on my 17" monitor was located in the lower right
quadrant of the monitor. It had about an inch on the top and left side of
black space. Again, couldn't find anyway to adjust that through the
KDE menus. As I use the same monitor for 4 machines, I did not want
to adjust the monitor controls on the monitor as all the others place the
screen in the center of the monitor.
Just my .02 cents.
Will dL SUSE and give it a try.
Ray
Ray & Nancy Plummer
Copper, Elektra & WOK
http://www.nanray.cjb.net/gsdped/gsdbintro.html
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