Hi, > I could try the 2.6 kernel (and I have a LOT of experience with computers), > but what's the use? The 2.6 kernel is not ready for prime-time, not by a > long shot, and neither, it seems, is Linux in general. Correction. The 2.6.x kernels are ready prime-time. They are far faster and far more efficient than the 2.4.x kernels and support a far larger range of devices. It has two very large advantages over anything MS can offer - one is that it's stable and the second is that it's secure. > I have seen too many bugs and posts on these topics about SMP/hyperthread/ACPI > and other issues that cause the system to lock up after a time of running or > not run at all and no fixes seem to be in sight - maybe because these > problems are intractable without inside information about ACPI and other > things that Intel will give to Microsoft but not to Open Source developers. Have you ever thought that people don't complain about MS products for two reasons - the first is they know it gets sent to /dev/null and secondly they don't know who to send reports to? The big advantage with open source is that the developers listen. Intel is a big supporter both financially and materially of the open source sector. They've even revealed stuff about the centrino processor which has been kept from MS due to the way Windows works there is little or no point telling them about as they won't be able to make use of the technology. > Maybe Redhat just doesn't care. Who knows? If they didn't care, do you think that those of us using the test version would take the time to report the problems? > I pity the average user that tries to install and run Linux on their latest > hardware. If I, as an experienced software engineer, throw up my hands, what > would a relative newbie who just needs the system to work do? I bought a brand spanking new, only released onto the UK market last Monday motherboard which comes with EIDE, RAID, S-ATA and a pile of other stuff on. Made by AOpen (not exactly God's gift to motherboards, infact, I wouldn't normally touch them with a dirty barge pole!). Whacked on the memory, a new P4 (2.8GHz), network and Soundblaster 5.1 (with the front panel). Attached the CDRW, DVD-RW and DVD, Zip, SCSI card and all the other stuff I had in the old machine, plonked in the Fedora CDs and an hour later, I had a fully working machine. > I have real problems seeing how Linux is going to make it to the desktop by > 2005 with these kinds of road-blocks. It is sadder that people think WinXP offers anything more than constant headaches, broken software and an uncaring despot on the throan. TTFN Paul -- "Logic, my dear Zoe, is merely the ability to be wrong with authority" Dr Who
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