shane wrote: >On Wednesday 20 March 2002 00:18, FemmeFatale opened a hailing frequency >and transmitted: > >>john rigby wrote: >> >>>Ahhh, >>>Is anyone home with you two? Hellooooooo? >>> >>>The reason that my comms are in Doze is because - **like femme** and a >>>zillion others - the Mandrake installs fail!!. >>> >>Don't drag me into this horseshit you've got going here John. I don't >>care to be a part of it. Thx. I don't enjoy struggling but I do to >>*learn*. I find it does educate & enlighten my pea-sized intelligence. >> > >just curious, does anyone here actually have an email where john said "i >tryed X, Y happened, how do i fix it?" > >or do we all just have "it can't be done, i tried so i know!" > There was a list of problems, none well detailed, with 8.0 in the archives. It almost seemed like a compendium of others complaints, all happening on a single system,
8.0 which he used had some serious bugs with the kernel and its virtual memory. These were common to all linices that used early 2.4s, but apparently installing and booting kernel 2.2 never occurred to this fellow--most of the "thrash the disk" stuff was a side effect of early 2.4. He said he did get it installed.... But could not view a .pdf file could not shut down properly, etc. Now he's jumping on other people's problems saying they will happen to him without even looking. We do test these things, but we don't have access to all the hardware out there. I make sure mine resembles junk as much as possible, hoping that if it works on the really marginnal stuff, like Gateway, Dell, Compaq, eMachines and PCChips (and friends) motherboards, that it will work also on the better stuff. (Yes, it doesn't matter how big the name is, cut corners are cut corners, and they do increase the fail rate, and of course "proprietary" peripherals are common. An Aureal (Turtle Beach) sound card has a binary only linux driver which works with all the sound cards they made except those they made for Dell, which were subtly different.) But I think your call is correct. Civileme
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