Tim, After I sent my mail... I began to feel it was a bit heavy handed.. And I apologize for that.. The only real point I was trying to make, is that one can learn a great deal from working on problems, rather than masking them.
- jim On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 11:41:30 -0800 Tim Hammerquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Washer wrote: > > I doubt that there should be any problems supporting this card > > on just about any version of any distro based on a 2.4 > > kernel... I'm a fan of solving problems, not just trying things > > till the problems go away... Just my take, I'm not saying other > > approaches are incorrect. I just prefer to figure things out.. > > that's what I like about linux.. that we have the source and > > can fix problems.. unlike with windows, where we are pretty > > much forced to wait for some vendor somewhere to 'give' us a > > fix. > > I certainly wasn't negating the importance of actually solving a > problem rather than upgrading out of it. The thing was, Mandrake > 7.1 _doesn't_ use the 2.4 kernel. It ships with 2.2.15, which is > the primary reason I suggested an upgrade. 7.1 was actually a > surprisingly stable distro out-of-the-box, as 7.0 and 7.2 both > had stability issues. (Or maybe 7.1 just stood up to my > tinkering better...) :) > > It would've been quite possible to simply upgrade the kernel > without upgrading the distro en masse, but as mdk7.1 rpms were > scarce several years ago, it'd be unlikely Jay could've done it > without recompiling from source. I'm not sure how Jay feels > about this, but I know that I wasn't up to recompiling when I was > still trying to get it installed. > > Anyway, that's my take as well. ;) > > Cheers, > Tim > -- > ANIME LAW OF JUVENILE OMNIPOTENCE > Always send a boy to do a man's job. He'll get it done in half > the time and twice the angst. > _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
