I remember a similar problem, when one of my windoze friends wanted to
try Linux and went with Mandrake. Of course, she also had lot of other
things (like fonts are smaller..) to gripe about. I asked her to tryout
Redhat 8.0, primarily because I have never worked with Mandrake. So
that, I can actually understand and help her out. But, once she had RH
8.0 loaded, she hasn't called me much.
I would say -- if you are starting brand new, start off with RH 8.0.
Of course, there will be lots and lots of Mandrake, Debian, SuSE ..
aficionados will be vouching for their distro too. So, this is just my
2 cents and not a call for any distro wars.
Cheers!
Sundar
PS. Sorry, didn't help you much. Huh! :-\
Kimi Adams wrote:
>As many of you know, about a month ago I installed Mandrake 8.2 on my
>desktop, mostly out of frustration and need. My administrator did the
>work. I have struggled with learning things over, after 20 successful
>years of MS'ing.
>
>The problem is that when I launch Open Office, from the favorites menu,
>it takes a minute or two or more to get past the opening logo screen.
>THEN as if it's not bad enough, it either just stops opening after the
>logo screen goes away or when it actually opens the program, the cursor
>stops blinking and it suddenly closes within the first few seconds of
>being open.
>
>I have not researched this issue, but I have talked to two other people
>that say it seems like a bad install or that maybe resources are messing
>with it.
>
>Any suggestion that will actually fix the problem?
>
>Kimi
>
>
>
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