On Sunday 27 May 2001 08:45 pm, you wrote:
> patrick wrote:
> > > is probably the best distro for a newbie, but it has so many bleeding
> > > edge progs in it that it is not as stable as RedHat or SuSE.
> >
> > i have mandrake 8 in my amd machine for a few weeks now and
> > have no stability problems. can u prove your statement. u cant
> > by me.
>
> Actually, other than the repeated personal accounts provided by various
> members numerous times regarding Drake and instability (my own included
> - and I had used drake 6.1/6.5/7.0a/7.0b/7.1/7.2, seeing it get cooler
> yet more unreliable almost every time, save for 7.0-7.1), no, I suppose
> that you can't. Nevertheless, Smitty is correct in his statement that
> Mandrake attempts to but so many bleeding edge techs into their distro -
> that's both a strength and a weaknes. Strength because anyone can now
> say "ooh! Lookie all the nifty toys!! I can do anything I want!"
u bet u can :)
> Weakness because newer techs will have more undiscovered bugs and
> therefore stability problems. What you have had is your own experience
> on that machine. Who knows, maybe it'll act alot quitkier with a
> different set of hardware? I know that this is often the case. My SuSE
> system works spectacularly on my laptop but on my desktop it's given me
> enough little problems that it makes me think that perhaps I should try
> another distro (I keep trying, unsuccessfully to upgrade stormix - still
> one of my favorites - to Progeny).
i had suse on this same machine at one time and it was completely
stable. maybe its not the distros, maybe some of u have strange
computers. some of u are a little geeky arent u :)
>
>
> And, actually, I still contend that SuSE is just as easy to use for
> newbies as Drake with better docimentation ;o) (IMHO - no distro wars,
> please!)
u wont get a distro war out of me just look at the numbers, mandrake
was numero uno even before version 8.
:) :) :)
>
> > and my point is we ALL have got to get rid of its not as good as
> > my distro,
>
> ?!?
thats right, i have not said that suse was no good or wierd
or anything like that.
>
> > or im gonna run down this distro to make mine look better.
> > i have had no problems with mandrake 8. the only problem i have
> > had is i cant seem to update my nvida drivers. hopefully in the
> > near future we will be able to update video drivers in a little easier
> > fashion.
>
> Have you tried the 1.0 drivers from their FTP site?
no but i install the nviidia drivers the other day and they both
installed. i didnt realize that i had to do something else to make
them work. i'll work on it again.i
>
>
> By the way, what Smitty sugested was something I would suggest as well.
> Seems to be that /boot as ext2 and /everything-else as ReiserFS works
> quite well. The only time you'll have problems is if you're trying to
> mount the ReiserFS partition with something that can't recognize it -
> then you're screwed.
>
> P.S.
> Pat - are you using ext2 for all your partitions? I thought the Mandrake
> default was to use ReiserFS?
no, default is ext 2. i have tried reiser and liked it. i am now using
ext 2 again. i have installed mandrake over 10 times as a kind of a test
and have had only one shaky installation.
>
> Anyways, it won't much matter soon - when ext3 comes out it'll
> automatically be the dominant file system by virtue of conveniency - ie.
> you can upgrade frile systems between 2 & 3, thereby adding journaling
> file system capabilities and not having to wipe out the system to do it.
>
> Norb
>
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