Hi,
Does anyone know of a good alternative to MDK (mandrake) 10? The reason is because I'm getting well.....lots of annoying small problems with '10.
I've been using the mdk/kde setup for a while now - since mdk9/kde3 (!). But with every version of mandrake I've been getting more problems - not lots but just a small increase that seem to occur more feequently.
Here's what I've experienced so far:; these have all happened at one point or another:
* Fonts decreasing in size for no apparent reason until I restarted the system.
* Sometimes in a KDE window, at the bottom where it tells you how many items have been used and how much space - I've seen "4TB and 16 million" files displayed here(!).
* On at least 1 occasion, KDE/MDK 10 refused to shut down.
* XMMS and KDE trouble: This morning I switched on my PC; apon trying to open a kde window with the star menu, mandrake 10 loaded xmms. After doing this a couple of tries xmms refused to start.
* More frequent appearences of the KDE crash window.
* CD Rom drive problems; if you put a cd into your cd drive you get a cd icon to click on, no problems. But remove and replace the cd in your cd drive a few times (with other cds). Eventually you can't see what is on the CD - or you get messed up files.
* Sometimes icons for USB drives don't go away. I plugged in such a device, it appeared and I could read from it but apon removing it was always left on the screen. When I tried the drive again I got a second icon!
In particular I'm more concerned about the increasing appearence of the kde crash window; under mdk9 I think I saw it once - and only once in all the time I used mdk In 9.1 it started to appear more but still quite infrequently. In 10, it almost seems to appear at least once each time I use mandrake 10. BTW in each case when I upgraded (say to 9 to 9.1, 9.1 to 10) the hard drive was wiped clean by me for the new installation.
Is it me or is mdk/kde starting to get more buggy? These problems are only small but they are annoying - and with each mdk release they seem to becoming more frequent too
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Thanks,
SP