On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:11, Stephen Oulton wrote:
It runs very slow. When I click to start an application it takes about 30 seconds before the application starts to boot up.
That's just bizarre. Linux should run as fast as, if not faster than Windows. Especially Mandrake, which is i586 optimized, which neither RedHat nor Windows are.
I have found that most of the applications that came with it will work. The ones that I would like to work don't. GT Catalog for one. I can read a CD with Konqueror and it reads it fine. When I go to scan the CD with GT Catalog it freezes the whole operating system. I can't even log out. The only thing that works is the reset button.
If you post a bug report to http://qa.mandrakesoft.com it may get fixed. Keep in mind that this is not uncommon with Linux. The flip-side of the coin is that there are usually 2 or 3 apps available that do the same thing, and one of them is bound to work.
My system is a Pentium III, 733 megahertz, with 2 10 gigabyte drives. I don't think that is should run so slow.
Neither do I. My 500 MHz PIII runs great.
I would like to completely get away from windows but I can't seem to find a version of linux that will run all the peripherals. Even Mandrake won't run my fax modem.
If it's a winmoden, it's unlikely that any distro will run it out-of-the-box. The Powerpack edition of Mandrake comes with some Winmodem drivers, but it is not free (as in beer). Otherwise see: http://www.linmodems.org/ http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html http://www.danielrees.me.uk/ltmodem.html
So far the only way I can use all of the functions on my computer is to use windows.
That's okay. That's not uncommon. If you contribute really helpful bug reports back to the community, maybe Linux will meet all of your needs soon. Austin -- Austin Acton Synthetic Organic Chemist, Teaching Assistant, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto MandrakeLinux Volunteer Developer, homepage: www.groundstate.ca -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml