jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote:
The distro that has given me the least grief is "Mandrake"> (yep. Windows user)
There's the potential there to have a frustrating experience too. Every time I have had a problem with Mandrake I have been unable to quickly find a resolution whereas with Debian you can usually get an answer quickly using google. For example, a while back I upgraded from 9.2 to 10. That screwed up a few things. After fixing that I had to upgrade to kernel 2.6 to make DRI work, that screwed up a few things, one of them being sound, which I didn't really care about at the time. The other day I decided I wanted sound to work again. Looked in the HOWTO, compiled the right module, made sure it was installed correctly. No sound. Couldn't figure out why, spent a couple of hours searching the web and trying things out. Eventually came across something that mentioned alsaconf. Ran that and it all burst into life. I have still not figured out how the Mandrake profile thing works for network setups because it seemed badly broken in 9.2 and still seems badly broken in 10.0. The thing that is broken about it is that network card configs seem to be global, so you can't have a card using dhcp in one profile and static ip in another. g -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz