[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Need Distro Recommendation, Please

[Brian Koontz]

To each their own.  Having tried Mandrake (or whatever they're called
this week) in the past, I wasn't too impressed then, and this comes as
no surprise now.  There are just too many *well-tested* distros out
there to risk hardware damage from an errant kernel configuration...

  --Brian

On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:52:51PM -0500, Ralph Green, Jr. wrote:
> Howdy,
>   I agree that it is too harsh to rule out the distribution.  Mandrake
> is a good distro.  Just don't install version 9.2 unless you know what
> you are doing.  That is 3 releases back, or so, depending on you count,
> anyway.  The problem was not caused by Mandrake.  The only thing you can
> fault them for a little is inadequate testing.  Given the circumstances,
> it was mostly bad luck, I'd say.  Gentoo was shipping installing this
> same kernel briefly, so it was not even just Mandrake.
> Have fun,
> Ralph
> 
> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 12:44 -0500, tr_data1 wrote:
> > > I would probably make a wide detour around any distribution that had
> > > the potential to render hardware useless.  
> > 
> > Really? Isn't that a bit drastic? IIRC, the problem was identified and fixed
> 
> 
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