RH 8.0

[numa at thenuma.com]

Yeah, I used to LOVE mandrake 9.  And then I decided to do something
stupid.  I switched mainboards.  Be warned.  Unlike more predictable OS,
like debian, when mandrake starts to come apart, it can spin out of
control into a module laden hell.  Granted, the machine was
overcomplicated, and it was absolutely my fault.  However, I can deal with
debian, gentoo etc where I have absolute control over what gets loaded. 
With mandrake, if you start to change too mnay things at once, all hell
can break loose.  Mine got confused by network cards, hard drives, sound,
video differnent usb controllers...  it went berzerk.

This is the deal, with debian, things either work, or they don't.  With
Mandrake things that don't work now, may start the next time you reboot,
and then stop working after a few minutes.  Things may panic the kernel. 
After a dozen or so reboots, usually after slowly removing devices, till
it's just one drive, mainboard, ram and chip, things can start working
again.  But be wary of anything that "autoconfigures".

Sounds like windows doesn't it?

Kris

> mandrake 9.1 is very nice, i've been running it for almost a month now.
> it comes with several window managers, you have to go in and select
> packages to get to them. the thing that impressed me the most though was
> how easy it was to set up a USB belkin wireless unit - it just worked
> (-:
>
> trisk
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> On Fri, 9 May 2003 10:04:51 -0700 (PDT)
> Rusty Brown <kujayhawkbb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Adding $.02 here and commenting on the original post: what has
>> happened to the Xconfigurator utility? RH 9 doesn't have it either,
>> nor a "test this configuration" option when installing X with the
>> system. If your chosen video/monitor don't work, you're just kinda
>> hosed. And when I tried to download and install that utility, and
>> linuxconf, I ran into dependency hell trying to get them all met. I
>> finally gave up, because I just didn't have the hours needed to muck
>> around with it, and I'm not familiar enough with Linux to hack the
>> files manually. What's up with that?
>>
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