hardware: Nvidia NForce2 + AMD Athlon XP 2400 + 1024MB DDR memory software: Fedora Core 1, 'workstation' config plus KDE and software development packages; nvidia drivers for nforce2 and geforce3 installed. First the good... I like the new startup screen, it's very professional looking and it hides the scary boot messages from PHBs and newbies. Reminds me of Windows or MacOS boot sequence which is not such a bad thing. The desktop looks almost exactly like RH9 which is not such a bad thing either. Unfortunately, FC1 is completely unstable on my system, simple operations like cutting and pasting files between two folders lock up the system. In another instance the system locked up during mouse-over of the 'find files' item on the KDE menu. In all cases the system is locked up hard and normal escape routes (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, Ctrl-Alt-Delete, etc.) have no effect. So after three hard crashes in ten minutes I'm thinking that FC1 + KDE is completely unstable and maybe I should try using GNOME instead. Okay, I switch my desktop to GNOME, and I pull up the file manager to continue what I was doing before the crash. But the file manager (the 'start here' icon on the desktop) is actually Konqueror, and as soon as I try to cut-n-paste some files from one place to another the system locks up again. Apparently when you install KDE and GNOME together it uses some KDE stuff (e.g. Konqueror) within GNOME and vice versa. Has anyone else seen this problem? I have three theories to explain this behavior, if someone can confirm or elaborate please do so. 1) Fedora Core 1 + KDE has serious problems. 2) Fedora kernel 2.4.22-nptl.2116 (or whatever) has serious problems 3) Nvidia Nforce2 drivers are defective p.s. before anyone starts talking about 'hardware problems', Win2k SP4 is rock stable on this machine, or as stable as Windows ever gets. No overclocking. thanks in advance, A
