Re: [Lug-Nuts] 31 Flavors of LINUX

From: Hubert Littau (hrlittau@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Nov 03 1999 - 10:35:01 PST


You name it. Partial start-up, (some missing buttons sometimes), locks up
when using it locally to verify
new html, (stops responding and will not re-write the screen when dialogs are
cleared) failure to properly
report unread mail, sudden shutdown when sending mail with html inside,
random changes of background color
in mail documents (even plain text). Shall I continue??? I don't recall this
stuff happening on the other (evil :-))port
of Netscape.

Hubert

Michael Long wrote:

> I hardly have any problems with netscape running on my linux box. What are
> you guys seeing? Actually, I did have a problem with netscape would hit a
> web site with java in it, but that was easily fixed after doing a little
> research on deja.com. It's been rock solid for me. I even bring up the
> yahoo messanger java applet now :)
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Scott Tyson wrote:
>
> > Version 1.0 of Gnome was far less stable than NT. I didn't bother with
> > KDE, wasn't much of a CDE fan when I had an HP-UX box. I'd rather do
> > straight WindowMaker if I were to go back to Linux as my desktop OS.
> > Don't know how Redhat 6.1/Gnome is but my guess not that much better.
> > I'm also kinda bummed I read all this negative stuff about Netscape on
> > Linux. It runs fine for me on NT but then so does IE 5.0. Netscape is
> > fatter and slower than I.E. 5 which is not great but it doesn't crash.
> > Isn't Opera working on a Linux port?
> >
> > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
> >
> > On 11/3/99 at 5:20 AM Hubert Littau scribbled:
> >
> > >I found Gnome to be about as stable as Netscape for Linux or for that
> > matter,
> > >Microsoft *.*
> > >For me kde has been the work horse with Mandrake as well as straight
> > Redhat.
> > >My own relatively early impression is that if there was one thing that
> > would
> > >hold Linux back from desktop use it would have to be Netscape or the
> > lack of
> > >a feature-comparable replacement.
> > >
> > >Eric Andreasen wrote:
> > >
> > >> Caldera Open Linux 2.2 and Mandrake (RedHat) 6.1. I go back and
> > forth. I
> > >> really like the look and feel of Gnome and Enlightenment. Celeron
> > 466 on
> > >> Abit BP6, 64MB RAM (more processors and RAM to come!) Having a
> > problem with
> > >> AGP though, doh! Will try to install driver tonight (a first for
> > me).
> > >>
> > >> ______________________________________________________
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> >
> >
> > Scott Tyson
> > Deepwell Gaming Server admin
> > tysons@deepwell.com ICQ#: 125581
> > http://rand.deepwell.com/
> >
> >
> >



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