I've been using Mandrake 8.0 for quite awahile now and I swear by it.
Very stable right out of the box.

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On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lane Davis wrote:

>
>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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