hello

[Lane Davis]

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
> 
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