I remember back in the day, mandrake Linux was my first *nix experience running on an old version of vmware workstation, was still doing wintel support back then....<br><br>time flies, been 3 years since ive touched a windows support request @ work ;-)
<br><br>but back to the point, I agree that mandriva/mandrake is a very good, easy to use distro. <br><br>Could this be a pebkac issue maybe ? <br><br>:P<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 17/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Martin</b> <<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">tony atkins wrote:
<br>> am amazed you managed to get Mandriva Linux working long enough to<br>> actually want install something on it! - i have struggled with a close<br>> relative, PCLinux, and am startled when it does not change with each
<br>> reboot. It goes from unstable to volcanic with each update - am off to<br>[---]<br><br>Sure you've not got /hardware/ problems? Or is that just your way of<br>describing your preferences/choices? :-p<br><br><br>
I've found Mandriva to work fine and for years at a time. Current uptime<br>for one Mandriva box I play on is: "top - 13:11:46 up 445 days, 12:29"<br><br>No problems there. I'm just waiting for when the PSU blows up or a fan
<br>fails! (And yes, it does a lot more than 'firewall' duties.)<br><br><br>Then again, I am a bit of a Mandriva fan ;-)<br><br>Have fun,<br>Martin<br><br>--<br>----------------<br>Martin Lomas<br><a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">
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