on 10/29/2007 9:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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... Just curious. The firewire drive problem. Are you staing that what you say, that they don't work well, is *all* Fedora and that they do work well with other distributions? Or that they don't work with the kernels, same number, of all of them? Honestly if these drives were as important to me as you say that they are for you and that they worked with a different distro I would have switched a long, long time ago. -- David
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