Don't bother with RedHat if you want KDE -- use Mandrake

[slave]

I just downloaded and installed 9.1 and it is really good, I'm surprised.  KDE 3.1 is very nice, i haven't run into any bugs (although one config tool in the KDE menu was named the wrong thing) and the nvidia drivers work perfectly.  If you don't know, here's some of the software mdk 9.1 comes with:

XFree 4.3
Kernel 2.4.21
KDE 3.1
Gnome 2.2

I'd suggest anyone wanting a good free desktop linux should get this.

[preacher]

Im glad that other people can see that mandrake is finally doing a good job. Im just curious, I know that you used to use windows XP, did you try out mandrake's non destructive NTFS partition resizing?

[slave]

I have no idea since I deleted XP some time ago.

[preacher]

Good for you deleting XP, oh well though, I was more curious if it worked correctly. I also noticed that winmodem users can get drivers for their modems included with the distro if they buy the power pack. I dont know if this is a good deal, since you can find a lot of winmodem drivers all over the internet, but if you dont feel like spending weeks looking this is a good deal. Finally a distro ships with Nvidia video drivers included. It took so long.

[slave]

here's a screenshot if you're interested:

http://www.insanebaboon.netfirms.com/snapshot6.html

[preacher]

Looks good so far although I like to play with themes a lot. I always did like KDE better. Im downloading it right now. It has been hard to find an ftp site that wasnt full. Finally I found one though. Just curious concerning the nvidia driver thing. Did it require any modification of the config file, or did it work perfectly from the install?

[slave]

Surprisingly it was rather easy to install the nvidia driver.  I didn't have to apply any strange patches or anything since Mandrake's kernel apparently doesn't have the backported 2.5 stuff like red hat is doing for 9.0.

[Pantso]

I love the screenshots! KDE looks great!! Good job on Mandrake 9.1! I'll be waiting 'til it hits the stores here to get it, since I'm on 56K.  

[slave]

Though, if you use Wine or Winex there will be a bug since Mandrake 9.1 uses a newer version of glibc that causes trouble with the sockets.  The workaround is to delete the socket everytime you start a program (easy to make it do it everytime if you make an alias for it -- just ask me if you have trouble)

[SAJChurchey]

Can you go ahead and post the command to make that alias?

[slave]

Well you could make an alias in .bashrc to make it where everytime you typed winex it would also delete the socket but if you use KDE there's a better way.  First, find out where the socket is.  If you use winex its under ~/.transgaming (a hidden file in your home directory)  

It will be in a directory called wineserver-(your host name), which has a file called "socket" inside of it.  This is what you need to delete.  The command do do this is:

rm -Rf ~/.transgaming/wineserver-(hostname)

What we want is to run that command before we start any wine programs.  Here's how we'll do that.  Find a .exe file in konqueror and right click on it, and click "edit file type."  Nothing should be under "application preference order"  so click the add button.  In the box type

rm -Rf ~/.transgaming/wineserver-(hostname); winex %s

mind the semicolon and the %s

Then whenever you click on a exe file in konq it will launch wine after deleting the socket.