Jeanette Russo wrote:
>
> I can't believe I have to install a kernel in my brand new install to fix
> this. I have no idea how to do this. I just Mandrake Soft should have
> fixed this in the boxed versions. This problem has been out for a long time
> and now I wasted $39 time and effort on Mandrake 6.0. How could this
> possibly be the most bug free version on Linux when you have to replace the
> kernal right after you install it.
Oh, give me a break.
It's a download and ten minutes of your time. Would you prefer a broken
kernel and the fsck-on-reboot problem you've got now? I know I'd just
bite the bullet and grab the download.
Don't think that any of the other distributions are any better. A
kernel is trivial compared to the 140M worth of updates Red Hat has
issued against their 6.0 effort. Debian's last official release ships
with 2.0.34 and an X distribution that hasn't been current for quite
awhile. I don't recall Caldera's 2.2 (their latest) having any small
amount of updates either, a kernel was included there too. Slackware
STILL doesn't ship with libc6, something that's shipped with other
distributions for at least a couple versions.
Mandrake (and all other distributors that I'm aware of) release a
distribution with a version number. Updates to that version don't
typically get streamlined into the retail packages. Think of the
support nightmares that would cause! Just because Microsoft feels the
need to support 3 versions of Win95 and 2 versions of Win98 doesn't mean
everyone else should take on that burden! 6.0 means 6.0 means 6.0. Not
6.0 + some unknown set of updates.
You probably could have saved yourself about $30 and bought a
distribution from a vendor that slipped the updates into their burned
discs. I posted yesterday about LSL releasing a new "updates" CD that
carries the various items that have been released since the official
releases of the major distributions. I don't recall the price, but it
wasn't very expensive. If you feel it's too much effort to download the
update, pick up the CD.
You've been reading this list for FAR too long to claim that these
kernel updates were "sprung" on you. The issue has been known for quite
a while. Didn't you account for that when you bought your copy? If you
knew it was a problem, why didn't you ask the vendor if they included
available updates on their CD?
Sorry, but you've hit my "whining" threshold...
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Steve Philp
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