On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 22:22 -0500, David Boles wrote: > I did not mean to single out laptops. But from the traffic on this > list that appears to be a good(?) way to have trouble. Buy a laptop. It would seem that way. Though I've had pretty good luck with mine. I did a fair bit of research before purchase, though. > The other way is to buy some 'strange' unsupported hardware. Sound cards seem to regularly throw people for a loop. Video and network cards can be common pains, too. > As I have said. I have yet to have a kernel problem. Since hmm... > 1999, might be 1998, or so when I first tried Linux. > > Lucky? I guess. But I doubt luck has anything to do with it. You've jinxed it now. You're destined to get one shortly. ;-) -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.