On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Philip Webb wrote: > 020104 Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > Mandrake 8.1 hangs about 1/4 of the time when shutting it down > > (means I have to power the machine down). > > sounds as if you need to prune a daemon.
I suspect a hardware conflict, but since Slackware 8.0 did everything that I needed from the Mandrake, I set it aside. > >> i have 8.0 , but haven't got round to installing it yet. > >> it was reported today that 46 % Linux users in UK have Mandrake. > > i have an ambition to build my own Linux > -- www.linuxfromscratch.org/ -- , > testing it with User-mode Linux > -- user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/ -- (smile). > > BTW do you have a lot of boot options or a bevy of machines? I've accumulated 3 machines - the first (from 1994) is running 4 boots, the second (from 1998) is running 10, and the newest (from 2000) is running 15. -- T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
