I spent the last week or so installing various Linux distributions. It
really gets frustrating trying to make it all work.
I installed Slackware 8, Progeny 1.0, Caldera 3.1 and Suse 7.1. All installed
purposely on a machine with a SB16 card and Kingston NIC hooked to a cable
connection. I figured they should all detect this popular hardware.
All of them blew the sound. They see the card, and tweak the configs as I
might, it still wouldn't work. I switched my system bios to PnP and non-PnP
OS.
Using any of the 2.4.x kernels supplied, I lost DHCP. The system reports
seeing my NIC fine, and it attempts to pull DHCP on boot, and fails. Errors
range from a timeout to Caldera's " garbage in relay string", whatever the
hell that means. Using the 2.2.x kernels it worked swell.
Other than that, I am able to log in and run the system. I do experience
hangs out of nowhere. KDE just all of a sudden hangs on the newer releases.
Gnome, well it does what Gnome does best, segfault all the time.
By far the best distro I have used is Caldera 2.4. It detected sound, NIC,
and printer all during the install. Netscape does inline video right out of
the box on COL 2.4. On the newer releases you have to set it all up, what a
pain.
All I know is this...I do not experience problems such as this in Windows
2000. I have yet to get a blue screen in Windows 2000. I know I'm gonna get
flamed for this, cool. I use a machine to work on, real work, not sending
e-mail or surfing pr0n.
I will keep trying to learn Linux and work with it. Maybe someday I'll take
it serious.
Eddie
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