On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 19:14, Timothy Murphy wrote: > These all seem to be kernel problems. > As I mentioned, I prefer to compile my kernels, > partly because I like to keep distribution and kernel separate. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, unless you consider the distribution's kernel to be broken. > >> That just leaves non-X applications, > >> and my impression is that the Fedora RPMs > >> are nearly always well-tested and reliable. > > > > Just not on a lot of hardware.... I have another box with an > > older adaptec SCSI controller and a really old DEC chip netgear > > NIC that never has problems. > > Which distribution do you consider tests on more hardware? In a manner of speaking, fedora *is* the test for RHEL releases (and thus CentOS). No distribution can test internally on a huge assortment of hardware, so someone has to push it out to real users. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
