On 26/03/00 7:53, steve harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] is reported to
have said:
I bought MacMillan Mandrake 7.0 recently and I experienced the same problems
Charles did on it being very slow.
Also 6.0 takes about 30 minutes to install, and this new 7.0 took 2:40.
Ridiculous.
Same here. The
"Charles Ulwelling" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it
just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM
utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will
take about 3 seconds for it
To all that are having probs installing MacMillan/Mandrake 7.0. I did
several different installs to see how they went and how they performed.
Well the standard install without using Power Quest BTmagic and do use
the "lilo" is the best performer. Also I found that when I did
additional
Excuse me, if I may, it appears that Macmillan/Mandrake 7.0 is a little
confuse as to what it is supposed to do with all of the software. I have
done about 12 installs, some different like 'Sever', 'Expert', 'Normal',
etctera. Some took over 5 hours some took as little as 40 min. None did
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it
just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM
utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will
take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, you wrote:
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where
it
just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM
utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move
I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0
plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy,
CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls
it, and happy as a clam. I do regret the $50+ I wasted to
learn this lesson, maybe something on those other 5 CD's
is
Charles Ulwelling wrote:
My mem usuage is this
X 38M
kfm 9M
kbgndwm 7M
kdm 7M
Kpanel 5M
and various others at 5 to 6 M until all the memory is used up, another
thing is there are 10 instances of httpd taking up over 3M's each. I don't
know what this process is but I
the screen or is it naturally
jumpy and something I should get used to.
Thanks,
Charles Ulwelling
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Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:32 PM
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vern,
you can contact MacMillan and they said they would refund my money.
I shipped the package back, I am still waiting.
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:39:54 -0500
I've had similar experiences with MacMillan Mandrake 7.0
plus half of my hardware failed to function (video, floppy,
CDROM etc.) I'm back with 6.1 or 6.5 as MacMillan calls
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:50:01 -0600
Hi: I am curious.
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went
without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Window to come upon install,
so I fuddeled arou
with
192.
Thanks,
Charles Ulwelling
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Holt
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 2:15 PM
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I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3
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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:50:01 -0600
Hi: I am curious.
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 on six of my machines. All but one went
without a flaw. One did not allow the X-Wind
,
Charles Ulwelling
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I'm dual booting an AMD K6/3 450 (actually booting Win98, NT
there.
thanks though
later
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Behalf Of Vic
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
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What is your processor speed, and how fast is
your hardd
What is your processor speed, and how fast is
your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
or scsi?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with
in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I
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What is your processor speed, and how fast is
your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
or scsi?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
I'm
Charles Ulwelling wrote:
I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake 7.0. I boot up and with
in a matter of seconds my ram utilization goes to max. I have 256 megs of
RAM so I don't understand how this could be. It makes linux completely
unuseable. I'm booting into KDE.
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What is your processor speed, and how fast is
your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
or scsi?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
I'm having a serious problem with linux mandrake
, March 25, 2000 7:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
What is your processor speed, and how fast is
your harddrive, like is it an older ide or newer udma33,
or scsi?
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Charles Ulwelling mewed:
I'm having a serio
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I have heard that there is some problems with
ATA drives, but don't quote me on that I am
not sure.
Are the drives running at full speed? I mean
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Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 10:32 PM
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I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM
utilization.
I've found out (as I once complained about the same thing that you are) that
Linux uses RAM
From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: RE: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 00:31:56 -0500
I'm not sure why your system is so slow, but I can explain the RAM
utilization.
I've found out (as I once complained
Charles Ulwelling wrote:
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where it
just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM
utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it will
take about 3 seconds for it to *jump* to the
Well I went back to where I found that Ram info, a mailing list for my
local Linux User Group, and I guess I was slightly wrong. Here's his words:
-
Now, let's say I launch an application called `foo' that uses the shared
library `bar'. When the OS first finds `foo' in the
: [newbie] Linux is so slow... Please help
Charles Ulwelling wrote:
Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to the point where
it
just isn't responding, I assumed it was a bug in linux as far as RAM
utilization went. By not responding I mean I'll move the mouse and it
will
take
"Charles" == Charles Ulwelling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Charles Hum... Well when I open it it isn't just slow it gets to
Charles the point where it just isn't responding, I assumed it
Charles was a bug in linux as far as RAM utilization went. By
Charles not responding I mean
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