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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