Granted, Mandrake should have fixed the problem before it came out with the
new version. BUT, they have the next best thing. They offered a update and
they tell you exactly what to do. I as I have said before started using linux
4 months ago. I felt the need to switch once I started hosting moos on my
machine. Red Hat was cool caldera was ok, and so was slack. But Mandrake is
easy to upgrade and maintain compared to other version.
Jeanette Russo wrote:
> I really don't want to argue this point but I will say one thing. I have
> both Red hat 6 and Caldera 2.2. I have not updated either of them and both
> run fine. Not so with Mandrake 6 which has serious internal problems that
> require fixing right away.
> Jeanette
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Steve Philp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 9:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
>
> > 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...
> >
> > --
> > Steve Philp
> > Network Administrator
> > Advance Packaging Corporation
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
