Re: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!!

2000-04-13 Thread kstewart
Sad to hear you're getting sucked into the MS vortex. Yes, learning to configure Linux is painful. I'm at that stage and the learning curve seems to be vertical but I did manage to get a basic configuration of Mandrake 6 running and it is solid as a rock. I initially had it running on 16mb or ram.

[newbie] Bad Video

2000-04-05 Thread kstewart
I just installed Linux Mandrake 6.0 last week and ended up with 1024X768 resolution. I wanted 800x600 so ran XF86Config. Before doing this I saved a copy of the XF86Config file. Once I finished with the new configuration my video was screwed and all I get is unreadable fuzz. I thought, No proble