If bad suff happens when you use the GUI, I would suspect the video driver or X-server is configured wrong or has a problem. I have installed Red Hat 7.3 on more than a dozen boxes. A few times I have had to tweak drivers or something like that but never had instability. This is on 166MHz to 1.5+ GHz and various hardware. Several of them are now running RH 8.0 and one is running RH 9. I did have one box with an IDE controller known by the Linux community to be flakey. This I learned after some significant frustration and whining about how Win98 worked fine on it. Replacing that controller solved the whole issue. "chew carefully" That's good! Alan -------Original Message------- From: Phil Mattison Sent: 06/12/03 02:00 PM To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Subject: Re: Good Bye Gnome, Hello KDE, I hope > > 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.