Hmmm, quite funny enough, when I started playing around with linux, it was
with Slackware... I found it to be quite consise and clean, even thoughI
have RH (I aint found many problems with it yet, except for it's bloated
size + a few niggly personal things) and Corel (quite kewl) running quite
smoothly @ the moment, and have played with TurboLinux and Caldera OL... due
to popular positiveness (and that all the gurus around seem to be running
it), I think I will give Debian a solid flogging, or resort back to
Slackware myself by next week (if time forbids...)... Probably do a base
installation, my prefered way, (probably with kernel 2.2.16,
upgrades/patches) and build (XF4 + WM + Gnome + tools) from there.
Well, there we go...
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Hi All,
For most of this year, I have been running 3 Dead Rat 6.0 boxes and 15 or
more Slackware (3.5 & 7.0) boxes. All the machines are performing similar
roles (network management, IDS, alerting etc), and they were all brand new
compaq's (PIII-500's).
So far, I have had reliability problems with 2 of the boxes. After a dirty
restart they fail to come up without a field visit to fsck the root
partition.
Whaddya know, both of these problem boxes have been Dead Rat boxes.
Is this a known issue with Dead Rat 6.0?
While I'm whinging about Dead Rat, has anyone else noticed its propensity to
log an item such as:
"The last message repeated 10 times"
when the last message was several hours beforehand? ie, it seems to lose the
first message and only get the repeat. I have upgraded the syslogd/klogd a
few months back with the latest version from Dead Rat at the time, but this
problem remains. This problem on an IDS box is not acceptable.
I am rebuilding the last 3 Dead Rats as Slackware 7 next weekend, and am
majorly looking forward to not being bent over by Dead Rat again.
Dead Rat and Micro$oft are too similar imho.
Cheers,
Marty
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