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

2000-04-13 Thread Ed Tharp
check the speeds of your memory if you have more than one mem chip - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] I thought this was supposed to beat Windows hands down on stability!! Uh oh, I hope

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

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

2000-04-10 Thread Vic
Say what?? I was not bashing, I was trying to diagnose, but I can always slack off and let someone else do it and not contribute-- On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, David Hugh-Jones mewed: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the

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

2000-04-10 Thread nodyak0
Excuse Me, I am for ONE of the very inexperienced users of either Windows or Linux, I do not think there are any here that are any newer at either one than myself. I just started with Linux/Mandrake Complete v7.0 from Macmillin Software, about 2-3 weeks ago or maybe a month. Not sure at this

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

2000-04-09 Thread andy
OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! In a little over a week, I've re-installed Mandrake 7 FOUR times..what gives?? I tried installing Caldera open Linux instead..that says my Hardware will not support it!!

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

2000-04-09 Thread paul haine
OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! snip I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!! Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!! I understand completely...I've been trying to get

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

2000-04-09 Thread bluebottle
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine wrote: Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just stops working, kaput. With this plus

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

2000-04-09 Thread Vic
Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. It might or might not be the problem that your experiencing, but this was the problem the last 2 times this happened to me. I usually recomend an AMD processor to windows users, but I'm biased in

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

2000-04-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
"andy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough PC savvy to get through this.. Linux is driving me crazy!! In a little over a week, I've re-installed Mandrake 7 FOUR times..what gives?? I tried installing Caldera open Linux instead..that

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

2000-04-09 Thread David Hugh-Jones
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote: Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of the hardware in the machine that your using. (snip) Hey, don't go blaming it on the hardware now. It's pretty clear that Linux is not an easy ride to install, no matter how stable it may be afterwards.