Mandrake 10 - Perfect with a Tragic Flaw

31337 · 2004-05-30T01:21:55

I just installed Mandrake 10 on my system and man is it awesome! Out of the box my built in NIC card was working along with my GeForce 4. This is the first UNIX distribution I''ve EVER tried that got my computer up and running without hours of configuration. It uses the brand new 2.6 kernel and has some really wicked graphics (like in the back of the console, without X running). HOWEVER, it has one tragic flaw which makes it so I can''t use it. Every 10 minutes or so it arbitrarily crashes. I''ve tried reinstalls and nothing works. Once it crashed during installation, once it crashed while installing detonator drivers, once it crashed when I was untarring a file, once it crashed when it was just running a screen saver, and once it crashed at the console without X running. How sad. If anybody had an idea of what my problem is that''d be great, but it seems to me that Mandrake 10 is a great Operating System with one tragic flaw, its unstable.