hello

[Garrett Ellis]

Mandrake 8.0 is decent imo. We use it here in the office as a Samba machine 
and it's been almost reliable. So far in 3 weeks it has hard-locked up 
twice, so it's definitely doing better than Windows* could ever hope to. I 
personally dislike it because 1) it's install is very dumbed down and not 
as detailed as I would like, 2) it is not Debian;) , and 3) a basic default 
install of it has locked up 3 times on a machine that otherwise doesn't 
lock up.

By far, I have had the most luck with Debian (just upg'd to 2.2r3, 2.4.5) 
in stability, security, and tolerability. In further response to what you 
said about Redhat, buggy Redhat distributions ceased to surprise me after 
5.2 or so.

Cheers,
Garrett

-----Original Message-----
From:	Lane Davis [SMTP:ldavis@fastq.com]
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

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