was Re: Mandrake Club now mandrake rant

[Timothy R. Morley]

My annoyances:

1. The time on my machine seems to change itself as though I told the system 
that my machine clock is set to GMT.  All is well for a long time and then 
out of the blue my machine is 5 hours behind.  I just reset it two days ago 
so I will see how it goes this time.  I've checked every setting I can and 
all appears well.  For some reason, this last time my /etc/adjtime was off 
and the last line wasn't set to LOCAL
2. I tried to change my printing system from CUPS to LRP, don't ask why I was 
just tinkering around.  I did this through the Mandrake Control-Center.  
After applying the changes I was repeatedly asked for CD 1 from my download 
edition.  I finally clicked on cancel and the printing was changed and seemed 
to work well.  After printing a couple of document fine my printouts changed 
to complete garbage.  
3. I have used the Control-Center to change several things and every once in a 
while all of the options disappear.  I have the window and pull down menus 
but all icons are gone.  I restart the Control-Center and everything is fine.
4. I've recomiled the kernel several times for kicks.  I followed the 
directions on Mandrakeuser.org and all seemed to work well.  Seems is the key 
word.  After recompiling and then rebooting into my new kernel my ppp daemon 
dies randomly.  Sometimes I'm on line for 15 seconds some times 15 minutes 
but it will always die on me.  I boot back into the shiped kernel and 
everything works fine.  I figured I was fubaring something but one kernel 
recompile didn't change anything and the daemon still dies.

On the plus side I installed KDE 3.0 without a hitch and the fact that 
Mandrake is compiled for a 586 makes a huge difference on my old K6-2 266 at 
home.  I installed RedHat 7.3 for about 2 days and went back to Mandrake 
because of the speed difference.

This leads me to the chicken and egg story.  Do I shell out the $60 a year to 
help fund development or do I wait to do that until they release something 
without so many quirks?

timm
On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:51 pm, Matt Luettgen wrote:
> Speaking of annoying quarks in 8.2  I've had problems
> with DevFS (go figure) supermount (still broken) and
> now msec insists on changing my tweaks.  I like
> mandrakes easy of configuration and installation but
> this is getting MS'ish IMHO
>
> ML
>
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