On Thursday 26 July 2001 15:26, John Rigby wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Well, I purchased the official M8 Powerbox ( to avoid any problems
> with install) - in Oz it costs twice the price of USA - $140
> After two weeks of at least half a day every day - asking for and
> getting great support here, it seems time to call a halt .
>
> The distro install is definitely deteorating - like my adrenalin
> reserves :-)
>
>
O.K., I'll probably get flamed for this, but I, too, had multiple problems
with version 8.0, across multiple installs. Total lockups required hitting
the reset button (something I've had to do maybe 3 times in 4 years with
linux) happened at least twice a week. DNS problems which would come and
go--sometimes dns worked, sometimes the browser would hang resolving
hostname, and would require the kill command to close it. Ghost windows
staying after I killed the proc, etc. And processes would sometimes take an
inordinate amount of time to complete on my P233 developmental box that I had
it installed on. After the third install I finally just went back to 7.2 and
the problems have ALL GONE AWAY. I know there are lots of people out there
that have had no problems with 8.0, but I'm not one of them.
eryl
