You know, I haven't had any problems either installing a fresh 8.1 install or upgrading existing 8.0 systems.
I've got 8.1 running on: - P100 64Mb RAM (no X -- just gateway box routing packets and it's just been a champ) [fresh install] - dual Celeron 600 384Mb RAM (main workstation that's got everything running on it. Haven't had one problem* ) [upgraded from 8.0] - PIII500 256Mb RAM (no X -- fat SCSI fileserver box with two SCSI drives and two IDE drives) [upgraded from 8.0] - PIII600 128Mb Sony VAIO laptop [fresh install] And 8.0 on: - dual PIII800 356Mb RAM (production web/mail server that's been running since July with no problems whatsoever) - PIII450 128Mb RAM (no X -- test box) I've rolled my own apache as I can't stand the way Mandrake has theirs configured, but other than that, I can't complain. * = for some reason, with all of my 8.1 boxen, I have to manually go in and add the default gateway for my 10.1.1. LAN, even though GATEWAY=10.1.1.1 is in my /etc/sysconfig/network. Has anyone else had that problem? I really wouldn't worry about any problems if I were you. I don't know if I've just been really lucky with all of these machines, but I doubt it. Hope that helps, -Charlie D. R. Evans said: > The responses in this thread so far have not been encouraging. > > I wonder if there are any other "power" users (i.e., people who work > their system pretty hard) who have had experiences that refute the > postings so far. > > I am running 7.2, but the lack of library support for recent packages > is beginning to be a pain. And there have been enough horror stories > from 7.2 people trying to install more recent libraries that I haven't > wanted to try that either. However, I did just acquire a big second > disk, so now I can experiment some with 8.0 and 8.1 to see if I can get > either of them working as well as 7.2 has been doing, without > affecting my stable 7.2 installation at all. Even so, war stories from > people who've tried this before can be very informative. > > Doc Evans > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Phone: +1 303 494 0394 > Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 > Fax: +1 781 240 0527 > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- GPG Key fingerprint = 4F36 EC4F 2F2C 5F59 9690 09E5 4C0F 9DB0 8623 53CE
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