[Cooker] Mandrake 7.2: /etc/resolv.conf
Hi there, I have no idea if this is indeed something that comes directly from mandrake 7.2 BUT: when I was upgrading my system from the version of 7.1 you were giving away last summer at LinuxTag, using a 7.2 from Linux Format (UK magazine) I discovered that it had reset the permissions on resolv.conf to -r, or something very similar. This had the effect that resolving didn't work unless you were logged in as the root user. Possibly intentional (or sheer fluke?), but if so maybe you could indicate a course of action to make it work without resorting to chmod again... Other than that, a general point about RPMs: I see you included netscape 4.75 compiled for XFree86 4... how do you upgrade XFree from the RPMs without using the official Upgrade software (which users of heavily personalised systems might not wish to do)? Lastly, netscape: that ugly little memory leak in Netscape 4.7 that brings your system down to the point of irreversibility... while it's not really your jobs to know, I was wondering if you had a) an idea of how to limit netscape's memory usage or b) some good news along the lines of 'netscape 6 is immune to this bug...' Thanks, Em
[Cooker] Mandrake 7.1 UK, Linux magazine this month- S3 Trio graphics card bugs and Netscape crash
Hello people, Thought I might mention that the X server for this graphics card (the S3 Trio3D/2X) requires you to manually set the sw_cursor option to avoid having a big white square instead of the cursor (by editing the XF86config file) Is this something you could 'know' automatically? Because most Mandrake users wouldn't think to look through the XF86config and find the comment that tells you to set this option... Furthermore, it seems that the newest Netscape is still allergic to the typing of large comments into these textbox widgets (as in HTML text boxes) and ld-linux.so eventually manages to crash X-windows (as other users have suggested in the past). The only way to stop your computer from crashing totally is to notice the moment the mouse goes sluggish and killall -9 ld-linux.so.whatever it's called... this is probably an evil and unacceptable bug. Em Tonkin
[Cooker] Laptop distribution
Whilst I'm thinking about it, what about putting the /usr/doc and similar 'statics' on a CDrom and giving the CDrom along with a laptop distribution and a couple of scripts allowing you to mount this cd in place of your standard /usr/doc and similar folders? It saves a lot of space on your average distribution, and that gives you in essence an extra 600 megabytes of hard disk space to use. Admittedly this means you'll have a lot of documentation and static content that you might never have a use for, but hey, nothing's perfect. I found that this was the only way I could get a full-size distribution on one gigabyte of hard disk- relegate all non-essential information to existence on a CDrom. I don't see why you couldn't formalise this organisation on a future Mandrake distribution (but then I am as the two short planks, which is to say, dense) Em Tonkin
