[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Mandrake 9.2, I don't think it's soup yet

[severian@pobox.com]

Howdy,
   I can't point to another program right now.  Nautilus is the only place 
I can repeatedly demonstrate a dramatic memory leak.  It does seem a little 
slower overall than before I upgraded from 9.1  And, I don't use Nautilus 
much.  I used it when I first set up 9.2 to pick a background image, and it 
was hard to miss the dramatic memory problem  I like several of the 
improvements, as well.  Gnome is getting better.  I plan on keeping 9.2 on 
this machine for a while to evaluate.  The other serious problem is the 
"ability" to kill LG CDs.  Neither problem is likely to be Mandrake 
specific code.  Both problems itell me there was insufficient testing.  I 
was waiting for 9.2 and was going to use it on my two most important 
machines.  Based on initial tests, I'll leave one at Mandrake 9.1 and 
probably put SuSE on the other.
   I don't think I said the whole distro was bad.  I did say it seems to 
have been released prematurely.  Lots of people use Nautilus more than I 
do.  I would have trouble recommending Mandrake 9.2 in its present state to 
a newbie with that problem.  I expect they will get it taken care of, but I 
will have to wait and see..
Good day,
Ralph


In response to the welcome remarks of tr_data1 at 08:16 AM 10/27/03 -0600:
> >up.  I opened an 82K jpeg and memory use went up more than 500 meg.
>
>Does the memory issue only occur with Nautilus? If so, then I would
>hardly declare the whole distro bad. Please identify other software
>in it that has unusual memory consumption. I've been very pleased with
>Mandrake 8.2 and am waiting for 9.2 in the mail.