[CLUG] Corel???

[Peter Flynn]

> Gotta ditto that Peter - Mandrake appears[1] to be much nicer and
> easier to use than RedHat[2]. The install is a piece of piddle, and
> I just think they made a bit more of an effort with tweaking the
> GUI. One thing that really got me was that all partitions are
> automatically mounted at boot, and icons for each are added to the
> desktop. It's a little thing, but it's the little things that count.

Sounds good, I should go find a copy to test.

Been experimenting with RHL 7, mostly OK, some silly niggles:

1. There is no kpackage with KDE so I can't install packages.

2. On a 200MHz Pentium I get frequent lockups when resizing a
   window or when doing too many things too quickly (like 
   closing Netscape, switching screen, splitting an Emacs window,
   and kicking off a compile. Stuff that ought to work no problem:
   it must be the redraw routines, but why fiddle with them when
   they were working just fine as they were?

3. I selected UK keyboard at install time but now in all windows and
   apps the only way to rubout a character is to physically type a
   Ctrl-H...both BackSpace and DEL produce the same VT100-style
   rubbish ^[[~ and stty erase ^H doesn't work. Something is grossly
   misconfigured here.

Trouble is, I suspect RedHat is getting too big to listen to user
gripes these days. It'll have to wait until I buy a copy with paid-
for support.

///Peter