David Boles wrote:
If you find a Linux distribution, a free one, that is different from what
your attitude describes will you post the name here?
Most of my machines run Centos, where the interface doesn't change every
week.
What is your latest disaster this time anyway? I missed that part of this
thread.
My only recent ones have been the kernels that wouldn't boot on IBM MPT
scsi controllers. I gave up on fedora on any machine with nvidia or
firewire long ago.
Is that "IBM MPT scsi controllers" only? That does sound like a possible
bug. Did you write a ticket on that?
There were 2 similar issues in recent months - I think one was a larger
problem and was fixed in a few days. It may not have affected adaptec
controllers. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=251577 But
how can things like that get pushed out with no testing? Most of my
machines (obviously not running fedora...) are in remote locations where
failing to boot is a serious problem.
Strange. Which version (release) of Fedora? Core 6? Fedora 7? I ask
because I have an Nvidia graphics card and the firewire on my machine.
This was FC6 which had otherwise been stable for months.
I was using Nvidia graphics cards when I first tried Linux at RedHat v5.2.
I think it was v5.2. It came with a "Linux for Dummies" book. I built my
current machine around the time of Fedora 7. I, personally, do not have
anything firewire but my son's camcorder works when attached. It did in
Fedora 7 and still does in Fedora 8.
I use external firewire drives to periodically mirror some internal
drives for an offsite backup copy. It worked in FC1 and about 25% of
the time since. So fedora has just not been usable for anything
important for years. And I am mildly amused at the claims of how much
better open source drivers are...
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Les Mikesell
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