I just had some various questions about Mandrake 10.1, ive used mandrake plenty now, i used Mandrake 6, 7 , and 9.somthing (i think) but then i went to windows for awhile, but i wanted to go back to linux and i figured i would be faithfull to the dist. ive always used but im finding some problems along the way, first off..Has anyone had problems with the system just freezing? ive had that happen a few times and i have NEVER had any previous versions do that, and sometimes the login screen doesnt load, eth0 device always fails to load at startup (although that one may be somthing i did wrong) and hardly anything i try to install (other than rpm's) work, even then some rpms dont work, and other various things.... has anyone else noticed some problems? or am i just not doing things right?

I have eth0 fail at start up every time, but my network (both computers) works fine. I figure, no lack of function, why try to fix it you know!

I have had no problems installing anything......

I occasionally had 100% lockup of KDE where no input devices continued to work at all. no keyboard, mouse.

but all terminal programs were still running,
mplayer continued to play music
the network was off it´s head, btdowncurses.py was running.


i eventually found my build Firefox 1.0 official release
was causing it so i upgraded to the nightly release
greater than 12/12/2004


the eth0 thing

i created a symlink for
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network
to
file:/etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network

To get "eth0 OK" in verbose boot, go into your network configuration and turn off network hotplugging. I don't normally bother as the failed message does not affect my connectivity.

I don't remember my 'system' freezing, although I have had appz freeze on occasion. I would say, maybe two or three times kde failed to initialize out of probably a few hundred boots. Probably same as your login screen not loading as I use autologin.

Not sure what you mean by non rpm software not working. If you mean it installs fine but doesn't work I don't find that, if you mean makes fail, have you installed gcc? Usually I find downloaded software has good instructions in the readme file, although very seldom do I need to stray from rpm's. This post might be a good read: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

I certainly would not say it is perfect, but I would say it is stable. I would describe Mandrake as work in progress that is moving much quicker than M$. This weekend I plan to install the current Mandrake, Fedora, Slackware and Debian on the same pc to give myself an idea of how they stack up against each other.

i guess as far as the system freezing i guess its just KDE locking up, ....still having to get windows out of my mind

I run Mdk 10 Official Edition and have never had a "freeze-up" problem except one time last week. It wasn't associated with starting up; it happened quite a while after normal operations had been going on (browsing, word processing, email, spreadsheet in my case).

I can't remember the circumstances; all I remember is swearing at the computer as I hit various key combinations to no avail, and finally had to power down the computer by hand and start all over.

I do suspect it was a faulty application that did it, though with Linux it's been far, far rarer for something like this to happen that it was when I was running Windows.