-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'd say you grabbed Redhat 6.x. IMHO, Redhat 7.1 is excellent as a workstation or server. Every production machine I setup gets RH7.1 + latest errata patches. It ships with Ximian Gnome -- Red Carpet is great for keeping your system up2date or installing new software. Mandrake 8.0 is a great distro all the way around as well. I especially love 'MandrakeUpdate'. There's nothing quite like ssh'ing to your server, running 'MandrakeUpdate' (which is an X app) over the ssh wire and watching your servers update remotely.... *evil laugh*. Ok, I'm weird. - -----Original Message----- 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 + - --____________________________________________________________________ _-- + | | 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. | | | + - --____________________________________________________________________ _-- + ________________________________________________ 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBOzodeG3zoYA55CENEQI8WQCg6mTgGVyoG0EIIZATv539O0tiplMAoMTq Jh3S05tlf6HRLRkVL1fNmPn8 =ezC1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----