I haven't had much trouble with Mandrake 8.1 systems other
than their update system not being able to automatically
install their kernel update. The things you get with it
are built-in support for installing on raid, with or without
LFS and all of the journal file systems, automatic device
detection for things like USB ethernet adapters and wireless
cards, and an install disk that works pretty well as a
rescue disk and attempts to detect and mount existing partitions.
Les Mikesell
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Foster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 4:44 AM
> To: Devinfo@E-Smith. Org
> Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re:
> [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X]
>
>
> Anecdotal Evidence (tm) says that the RedHat 2.4.9 (includes patches) is
> the most reliable. (ie less panics _and_ page faults)
> I think the recent slashdot.org discussion also displayed a preference for
> RH2.4.9. So a "stock" Red Hat kernel isn't *that* bad after all :)
> I also think it's more appropriate to ask, "What does 2.4.x bring to that
> table feature and reliability wise?"
> For me, it's iptables and XFS/ext3/ReiserFS support.
> (Unless someone can show me a JFS for 2.2.x that works reliably and fits
> the e-smith^W Mitel model)
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig Foster
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 6 February 2002 5:05 PM
> > To: Damien Curtain; Darrell May
> > Cc: stephen noble; e-smith-devinfo
> > Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] SME on top of a distro [was Re:
> > [e-smith-devinfo] krud? + X]
> >
> > Good point and exactly why I thought to not use a standard
> > RedHat release
> > and instead favour a distro, like 'krud' or 'SGI XFS' that
> > releases a bug
> > patched kernel. In fact maybe a return to revisit SGI XFS
> > is warranted.
> > They have a tremendously large high availability server
> > base and their
> > kernel build is more thoroughly tested.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > --
> > Darrell May
> > DMC Netsourced.com
> > http://netsourced.com
> > http://myEZserver.com
> >
>
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