Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:10:33 08/10/04
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On August 10, 2004 at 03:38:52, Kunnar Klauks wrote:
>On August 09, 2004 at 20:44:26, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On August 09, 2004 at 16:13:14, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On August 09, 2004 at 13:48:51, Frank Phillips wrote:
>>>
>>>>On August 09, 2004 at 12:49:20, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On August 09, 2004 at 12:36:36, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>(snipped)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>For those of you tired with running a shit OS, there are viable alternative
>>>>>available.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.distrowatch.com/
>>>>>
>>>>>Announcement about the new Mandrake Linux beta:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.mandrakeclub.com/article.php?sid=2382&mode=nocomments
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Christophe
>>>>
>>>>If you do not want to live on the bleeding edge, then 10.0 is on the ftp mirrors
>>>>as is 9.2. Both free as in liberty and as in free beer.
>>>>
>>>>Frank
>>>
>>>I am still trying to find a place to download the DVD for Mandrake 10.0. It is
>>>bothersome to have 4 cds for a release.
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes it is, but I managed to do it a few days after the release overnight over my
>>ADSL connection.
>>
>>BTW, I actually believe that the distibutions based on the 2.6 kernel are not
>>ready for prime time. Fortunately, Mandrake 10.0 as an option to install the
>>well proven kernel 2.4, and that's a really good idea.
>>
>
>I have Fedora Core 2 with 2.6 kernel and it works well for me. Only problem is
>that for some reason FC2 does not always load USB modem driver module and i have
>to load it sometimes manually.
>On the good side is better scheduler of 2.6. For example, if i watched video
>with mplayer in FC1 and some resource hungry process like updatedb started, then
>mplayer said that my system is too slow and after updatedb process stopped then
>sound and picture was out of synchronization. I dont have such problem in FC2
>anymore. And i also like, that 2.6 comes default with ALSA.
>
>Kunnar
I have tried FC2 and it ended very quickly in the trash bin.
Support for Firewire was so broken in the kernel they have used that it had to
be disabled! Bad luck, I have at least 2 Firewire peripherals (an external hard
disk and a CD writer).
Also, FC2 has messed the partition table on the computer I have installed it on,
and I could not boot Windows after that (on this computer I have 4 partitions,
one of them with Windows 98SE). This is a known bug in kernel 2.6! The error was
recoverable thanks to instructions I have found at the Fedora discussion list,
but I think it is unreasonable at this time to use the 2.6 kernel, at least for
this reason.
I'm not going to support some new Linux stuff just because it is Linux. If it
does not work, it should not be released. Kernel 2.6 is shit at this time, using
it is risky.
Christophe
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