Re: [newbie] 7.2 is painfully slow

2000-11-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Most definately..you need more RAM. At least 64 to run things confortably. -- Mark Larry is NOT a cucumber...he's a stinkin pickle... WITH WARTS! registered linux user # 182496 =/\= PINE 4.21 =/\= **

Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome

2000-11-04 Thread Anthony
Nope, no helix-update. That's one of the bad things about Mandrake's Gnome. It's not exactly the same, but overall yes. There are a couple of things missing in Mandrakes version, but nothing earth shattering. I wouldn't worry about it. So does it come with Helix-Update? -- Anthony

Re: [newbie] 7.2 - mouse buttons/menus different -- how to change back?

2000-11-03 Thread Ian Land
Aaron MDK 7.2 doesn't create the left click menu. You can do it yourself by placing a file called file.menu in your $HOME/.enlightenment directory, and then put entries in it that you want. The first line of the file is what appears as the menu title. Here's an example (with two submenus):

Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome

2000-11-03 Thread Dave Naylor
Hiya On Thu, 02 Nov 2000, you wrote about Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome: Just ordered 7.2 online. I see it comes with Gnome 1.2. Is this version of Gnome the same as Helix Gnome 1.2? It's not exactly the same, but overall yes. There are a couple of things missing in Mandrakes version

Re: [newbie] 7.2 + Gnome

2000-11-02 Thread Anthony
It's not exactly the same, but overall yes. There are a couple of things missing in Mandrakes version, but nothing earth shattering. I wouldn't worry about it. Hi Just ordered 7.2 online. I see it comes with Gnome 1.2. Is this version of Gnome the same as Helix Gnome 1.2? -- Anthony

RE: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-29 Thread Phil Connor
It appears to be showing up on the mirrors found this Linux-Mandrake Odyssey-i586 20001027 15:20 as the version @ ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake and ftp://phyppro1.phy.bnl.gov/pub/linux-mandrake Phil Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #189889

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Impressions

2000-10-29 Thread Jeff Malka
The other major problem I had when I finally booted it up, was that all the Kmail messages I'd been deleting for the past 3 months suddenly appeared. So I had over 10,000 emails sitting in the various folders in kmail. That is interesting because, still in 7.1, from within NT using explore2fs

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Riker
I'm still surpised! I have to keep looking at the box to make sure I'm not delusional. But it's 7.2 Complete. Installed it last night, in fact. Anyone else see it at Wal-Mart??? Riker On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote: Riker wrote: Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Bob McWilliams
How Much was it ? - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores??? I'm still surpised! I have to keep looking at the box to make sure I'm not delusional. Bu

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Riker
It was $24.95 U.S. dollars. The same price I paid for 7.0. On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote: How Much was it ? - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:03 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 27 October 2000 06:11 pm, you wrote: When did 7.2 come out at the stores? Just bought it and wondered how long it had been out and I didn't know about it. :) Just curious. 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Bob McWilliams
Wow thats a good deal Thanks - Original Message - From: "Riker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2000 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores??? It was $24.95 U.S. dollars. The same price I paid for 7.0. On Sat, 28 Oct 2000,

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be two weeks. Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release version is any different from

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
Larry: Maybe I'm missing something here. Yesterday an article was posted at the Linux Mandrake site saying that they are in the final stages of putting 7.2 together. Linked to it are several forums where they are soliciting user comments on what should/should not be included. Based on that, my

RE: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Rick Commo
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be two weeks. Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release

RE: Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread veloct
Well, according to Deno from Mandrakeforum.com. There is no way that it's out to retail yet since it wasn't release until early this morning. --- Original Message --- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote on Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:51:03 -0400 (EDT) -- 7.2 final just

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether the release version is any different from the Oct12th beta version? Cheers -- Larry Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread nomad creaktop
At 10:51 AM 00/10/28 -0400, you wrote: 7.2 final just began showing up on Mandrake ftp mirrors late yesterday (10/27). The cheap CD sites will prob'ly have it available in a day or two. The retail box sets will more likely be two weeks. Can someone from Mandrake tell us whether

Re: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 10:43 am, you wrote: Hmmm, I would find it very weird if they would package a beta for retail. Depends on who 'they' is. I don't doubt the person who says the K-Mart box is marked 7.2, but it's not Mandrake's 7.2 ;) If it was 7.2 final it would have KDE2

RE: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Rick Commo
There had been an earlier thread (on NEWBIES, EXPERT or FORUM can't remember which) where the chat centered around whether or not to release ML7.2 with some KDE2.0 pre-release version or to wait. Later there was a comment that the decision had been made to go with whatever KDE2.0 was available

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Maybe I'm missing something here. Yesterday an article was posted at the Linux Mandrake site saying that they are in the final stages of putting 7.2 together. Linked to it are several forums where they are soliciting If it's the Oct 27th blurb that heads the Mandrake news board, I think that

RE: Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Well, according to Deno from Mandrakeforum.com. There is no way that it's out to retail yet since it wasn't release until early this morning. This would seem "odd" as they told us that it wouldn't be released until the 28th and I wouldn't expect that Walmart would have it before it was

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level upgrades, Linuxconf, DHCD, and some locales. My take is that the last beta == 7.2 final for all practical purposes. Thanks

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm not from MandrakeSoft, but here is what Deno said on Mandrakeforum.com (best site for Mandrake news and discussions...): No doubt there's good stuff there. The format, however, makes it painfully slow to move through it and I have to make a living so I'm Linux-overloaded right now.

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread WoodyUSSLUCE
I just bought 7.1 from Walmart,the box said 7.0 but it had 7.1 inside with a note that they had released the newer version.I haven't seen a 7.2 yet! Jeff

Re: [newbie] 7.2

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 12:12 pm, you wrote: Larry, the same questions been asked on the cooker list. So far the consensus is that 7.2 final is the latest beta with about a dozen rpm patch level upgrades, Linuxconf, DHCD, and some locales. My take is that the last beta == 7.2

Re: [newbie] 7.2?

2000-10-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 28 October 2000 11:37 am, Rick wrote: There had been an earlier thread (on NEWBIES, EXPERT or FORUM can't remember which) where the chat centered around whether or not to release ML7.2 with some KDE2.0 pre-release version or to wait. Later there was a comment that the decision

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-28 Thread Mike Adams
At 10:52 PM 10/27/00, you wrote: Riker wrote: Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't think it made it to the list. I went to Wal-Mart tonight to buy my brother Mandrake 7.0, and while looking through the software isle I found Mandrake 7.2. When was this released? I thought the beta

Re: [newbie] 7.2 Available in Stores???

2000-10-27 Thread Dennis Myers
Riker wrote: Gang: I sent out a message earlier but I don't think it made it to the list. I went to Wal-Mart tonight to buy my brother Mandrake 7.0, and while looking through the software isle I found Mandrake 7.2. When was this released? I thought the beta version 3 had just been relase. Can

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-07 Thread Eunice Thompson
What kind of doc are you? Romanator wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling

RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-06 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Weaver Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-06 Thread Mwinold
whos yelling?

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-05 Thread frank
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt put to word: 7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few other

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
patrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks pat There was a posting about it on linuxtoday, lots of new stuff apparently, like over 250

RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, Mike Tracy Holt put to word: 7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Charles A Edwards
- Original Message - From: "philomena" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "newbie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 10:09 AM Subject: [newbie] 7.2 beta Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet. philomena I have it installed on

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Vic
I wish I had my secondary machine, it would be an answer to an insterseting qquestion (fsck the typos i don't care) From what I heard about 7.1 I'm afraid to try 7.2 On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet.

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread philomena
I managed to get 7.2 to boot - I had to disable mon from starting up, which is sort of odd. Can't get 7.2 to properly boot one of my other Linux partitions - still working on that. But its a start. philomena Charles A Edwards wrote: - Original Message - From: "philomena" [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread frank
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, philomena put to word: Anyone having luck installing the 7.2 beta ? I haven't been able to get it to boot yet. i'm running it as cooker; essentially the same thing, as 7.2 is a snapshot of cooker from a few days ago...i always download to a partition that i have set

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread markOpoleO
damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make everyone seem dumb at linux go should in a windoze mailing list. markOpoleO - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [newbie

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread patrick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks pat

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Adam
NIC(s) Adam - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybo

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Paul
128mb RAM 2-10.2 gig hdd sb live value 15" samsung 5e riva tnt 16mb pci realtek8139/linksys NIC(s) Adam - Original Message - From: "patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 3:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta [

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread philomena
Here's the announcement page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72beta1.php3 cheers, philomena patrick wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: reasons i avoid betas and alphas, their more of a pain then the finished bug! can anybody give us some idea of the differences on 7.2 beta thanks

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Paul
WHEN can we expect it to be released OFFICIALLY (not beta)? unless it's says on that page, then I'm an idiot... philomena wrote: Here's the announcement page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72beta1.php3 cheers, philomena patrick wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > reasons i avoid betas

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread patrick
On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: WHEN can we expect it to be released OFFICIALLY (not beta)? unless it's says on that page, then I'm an idiot... philomena wrote: Here's the announcement page: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72beta1.php3 cheers, philomena patrick wrote:

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Adam
: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta when can we expect the 7.2 to be released officially? (maybe that one will install) Adam wrote: I'll be installing 7.2 shortly, I just downloaded the inst and

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Adam wrote: I'll be installing 7.2 shortly, I just downloaded the inst and ext iso's, burnt them. I'll give everyone a scoop on the differences, new stuff and all that good stuff :P O dear...he's gonna torch a perfectly good Penguin just to see "how" buggy the beta is! There oughta be

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Mark Weaver
markOpoleO wrote: damnit man, stop yelling at everyone, the is is for newbies if you wanna make everyone seem dumb at linux go should in a windoze mailing list. Damnit Jim...I'm a doctor...not a brick layer. -- Mark **

RE: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Mike Tracy Holt
7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few other minor details. When I did the fresh install however, it

Re: [newbie] 7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread Mark Weaver
Mike Tracy Holt wrote: 7.2 is pretty good, lots of good improvements. On 'upgrade' from 7.1 it didn't do so well; wasn't able to detect my network after the upgrade, couldn't setup my printer from the installer (which I've never been able to do) and a few other minor details. When I did

Re: [newbie]7.2 beta

2000-09-04 Thread patrick
this sounds wonderful already. i can see mandrake selling lots of mandrakes real soon :) On Mon, 04 Sep 2000, you wrote: Patrick, It does have kde2, in beta, and the xfree 4.01 installed fine. 7.2 is certainly quirky, since it is still beta - I had to try a few different installs

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