Hello Peter,
Its even better than that Redhat7.0 and caldera2.4 have problems
compiling simple rpm's that mandrake can do with no problems. Although
caldera is better than redhat even with the updates. I get to compile
them on various systems and mandrake does by far the best.
Monday, March 05, 2001, 1:21:02 PM, you wrote:
Peter Ruskin> Feeling a bit peeved last week because the other distibutions brought
out KDE
Peter Ruskin> 2.1 before Mandrake did, I decided to give RedHat 7.0 a try.
Peter Ruskin> I couldn't install it! Whereas Mandrake sees my Promise ATA100
controller,
Peter Ruskin> RedHat claimed I couldn't do a hard disk install because I didn't appear
to
Peter Ruskin> have any hard disks. I had to use a drivers disk to get my Adaptec
2940UA
Peter Ruskin> recognised but the RPMs were on one of the Promise disks and they didn't
have
Peter Ruskin> a driver for that.
Peter Ruskin> Caldera wouldn't play either.
Peter Ruskin> I think we all take for granted the excellent hardware support provided
by
Peter Ruskin> Mandrake in its distributions and I congratulate them on their great
work.
Peter Ruskin> Regards,
Peter Ruskin> Peter
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