hello

[Craig White]

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> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Lane
> Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:31 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: hello
>
>
>
> Ok, I just grabbed a copy of Redhat 7.1 from their distribution site,
> burned it to CD and installed it on a laptop.
>
> Tell me if I'm crazy, or is it normal for Linux distributions these
> days to ship with older KDE (this came with 1.1.2) and old buggy linux
> kernels (2.2.16).  linux-2.2.16 seems to have some odd bug with the
> 3c57x controller.  Weird messages appear in syslog such as "eth0:
> transmit timed out", and various other Tx/Rx errors.  It surprises
> me that Redhat ships with this kernel.
>
> I'm new to the list so I was wondering what the general concensus
> is with Mandrake 8.0.
>
> My morning rant :)
> ->L
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You definitely did not get Redhat 7.1 (seawolf)

that definitely installes kernel 2.4.2 and kde 2.1.1 (redhat updates will
bring that to 2.1.2 libraries)

Craig