On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:02 +0000 (UTC),
glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote:

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>I got three new disks from CheapBytes, the install went just as it should.
>Looks like that was my problem before-- bad media. I got stale NFS
>handles on my old set of disks, couldn't tab complete or ls -l filenames
>or rpm packages. So now I have a working Mandrake.

Whoohoo! Always good to hear.
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>Mandrake sure wants a lot of screen real-estate. In 640x480 mode the
>entire window for the control panels won't even fit, even though it's
>mostly whitespace, so I had to right-click on the window edge and scoot it
>up before I could click on the buttons at the bottom. If they're going to
>make the window bigger than the screen, they should have scroll bars on
>it.

In my experience with Mandrake, I HATE the way GNOME looks under the
default settings. Not that I have any logical reason why the default
settings are terrible, they just annoy me to no end. Personal
preference, I guess. I tend to use KDE, because I like it better
(again, no logical reason, just personal preference), but if you're
willing to take some time fiddling with the settings for GNOME, you
can get it to look decent, even under 640x480 resolution. Just tinker
with it a bit.

Susan