Weird, I must have accidentally grabbed 7.0 then.. thanks for pointing that out. On 27-Jun-01 Alan Dayley wrote: > > At 08:30 AM 6/27/01 -0700, you 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. > > RedHat 7.1 ships with and default installs the 2.4.2 kernel. I have not > installed it to a laptop so maybe it uses the old kernel for laptops, but > that doesn't make sense. Did the laptop have linux already on it and the > RH 7.1 install did not overwrite your previous kernel or settings? > > RH 7.1 also ships with KDE newer than 1.1.2 although I don't remember > which. Maybe there is an install option to leave all your old stuff in > place when you did the RH 7.1 install? Just guessing the same guess again. > >>I'm new to the list so I was wondering what the general concensus >>is with Mandrake 8.0. > > I have not used it but others LOVE it. > > Alan > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the > list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss + --_____________________________________________________________________-- + | | Lane Davis No man is an island, but if you take a bunch | | | | of dead guys and tie them together, they make | | | | Phone: 602-722-1200 a pretty good raft. | | + --_____________________________________________________________________-- +