Ever think about debian? Phil Mattison wrote: > This system is a PentiumIII 600MHz with 128MB RAM in a genuine Intel > motherboard. No strange hardware, recent Netgear PCI LAN card, ordinary ATA > CD-ROM drive and floppy, SIS-300 graphics chip, and that's it. Took me about > a day and a half to install RH7.3, get samba running and setup Apache. Its > fairly stable so long as I connect via SSH from a remote terminal or move > files via samba (I edit on a Win98 box). I used to leave it on for weeks at > a time. But I like to use the KDE email reader to check my server logs etc, > and gradually I noticed a correlation between using that and system > instability. Now I shut it down every night and minimize my KDE/Gnome usage, > so the effort to figure out the problem is more than that of avoiding it. I > have a RH8.0 box set I was going to upgrade to, but heard that RH major > releases tend to be the least stable (what the !?!?!). I think the > open-source community is like the Bizarro world of computing, to borrow from > Sienfeld. Just the same, I love a free lunch. I guess I just have to chew > carefully. > --Phil M. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Dayley > To: > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:28 PM > Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope > > > >>Occam's Razor applies here. >> >>On a particular box Linux is unstable but Windows 98 is stable. Why? >> >>Is it more probable that thousands of other installations of that same > > Linux distro version are also unstable and the users are lying about the > stablility? > >>OR >> >>Is it more probable that the particular computer has odd or flakey > > hardware or some other issue that the particular Linux distro version does > not handle well? > >>There is some flakey or poorly documented hardware, especially in some > > older PCs, that just don't run Linux correctly. IMO Linux actually pushes > the hardware harder than Win98 ever will. Marginal chips or vendors that > won't release required information make it hard to write good drivers for > some hardware. > >>OTOH, it could be something else. :^) >> >>Alan >> >>-------Original Message------- >>From: Tom Achtenberg >>Sent: 06/12/03 01:08 PM >>To: "'plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us'" > > > >>Subject: RE: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope >> >> >>>Phil, I had the same problems with my RH 7.3 box. It was much less > > stable > >>than my Windows 98 box! I finally gave up. I'm now trying Mandrake 9.1. >>It took 4 days and several attempts to get the install completed without >>errors. (Found the disk 1 iso on the Hawaii mirror is bad too.) I > > haven't > >>had much time to work with it yet, but it has been a disappointment too. >>Mandrake update doesn't work to start with. The whole task bar at the >>bottom of the screen keeps disappearing too. Only way to get it back is > > to log > >>off and log back on. This same box would run for weeks on Win 98 with no >>errors. I have not even tried to connect to my file server or printers > > yet. > >> If I cannot do it without manually editing files I'll probably just put >>Windows back on and forget about Linux for a desktop. >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss