What's the current state of the world?

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Author: Craig White
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Subject: What's the current state of the world?
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 19:04, wrote:
> I've been a bit busy attempting to stuff Windows 2000 onto a box
> that's metamorphosized a lot, which turned my boot order and
> partitions into a thick, creamy mush (plus it reboots for no apparent
> purpose every so often, so I've not kept up with Linux.
>
> Has anyone shipped a 2.6 based distro? (prepare for a whine for
> CDs...) Does 2.6 handle NTFS partitions well? Does any distributor
> include the closed-source nVidia driver packets on disc?

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I had that happen on one of my Shuttle compacts and it turned out that
the memory went bad. Also turned out that I couldn't restart the
computer without resetting the bios and the bios jumper doesn't work on
the nVidia chipsets - you actually have to power on while holding the
'insert' key on the keyboard until the bios resets...go figure.

Anyway, I think the first two questions are no at this point...the 3rd -
I don't know but that seems to be a weak reason to pick a distro. nVidia
does have drivers available for download for current distro's and they
aren't that hard to install.

Craig