Re: [expert] Building an AMD Duron System

2000-10-13 Thread Nathan Kennedy
I tend to build my Linux systems primarily on AMD chips. I have found them to be more stable and cost effective than the intel chips. I have also found that the AMD supported motherboards are typically built to be more robust than most intel supported boards. I would have to say that my only

RE: [expert] System does not come out of Suspend

2000-09-28 Thread Nathan Kennedy
I have apmd running, and have always ran this on the desktop machine for power management support. It does, and has always started up normally. Just out of curiosity where did you find that it is for laptops only? I do have to admit that I never put the machine into full suspend mode. I could

RE: [expert] Helix update Mandrake update

2000-09-27 Thread Nathan Kennedy
I thought that the announcement for the last update to MandrakeUpdate stated that it had moved the storage directory for the RPM's from /tmp to /root. Maybe the code needs some changing to allow for the download only of the files. This would be extremely useful for kernel updates which by nature