Surprised and Disappointed

[Chuck Allison]

Hello Jayce^,

Monday, May 5, 2003, 11:48:26 AM, you wrote:

J> ok, your screensaver locked up.  By chance was it an openGL one? (this can 
J> help in debugging the cause).  What video card?

Whatever the default screen saver is in Gnome. I have a FireGL 2000,
which is supposedly fully supported.

J> As for ease of use, things have really changed a lot in the last while.  A
J> good experience for me, was when my wife recently got an ibook.  We turned it 
J> on, and it auto-picked up my cups printer, and she quickly had access to my 
J> nfs shares.  Life is good, and easy.

Wish that would happen for me :-).

J> I can't say much for RH 8, which you tried.  I stopped using RH on my own 
J> systems a while ago.  Maybe others can help more with that, maybe RH 9 is 
J> your answer.  Maybe trying Mandrake or Suse would be a better idea.  Plenty 
J> of locals have copies, or there are sites where you can download from if you 
J> want.

So you like Mandrake better? How come?

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Best regards,
 Chuck Allison (The Harmonious CodeSmith)
 Senior Editor, C/C++ Users Journal
 cda at freshsources.com