[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake Problems??

[MadHat]

I think we just went other this issue recently...
Check the archives, specifically the thread
http://www.ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20011203/008533.html
Re: Mandrake Kernel weirdness??

The full thread listing is here
http://www.ntlug.org/pipermail/discuss/Week-of-Mon-20011203/thread.html

see if that answers your question.

At 03:28 PM 12/12/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>Good Afternoon,
>This is just a question out of curiosity more than anything...
>I have Mandrake 8.1 installed on my machine.  I have noticed that I have a 
>few problems installing packages on it.  For instance, I was trying to 
>install Vmware onto my machine, but the Kernel version(2.4-26) did not 
>match the kernel-header version(2.4-34)..  I would like to go to a LINUX 
>only environment, but I need some of my winblows apps too(i.e. Flash 5, 
>UltraDev 4).  Is there a distro where you have had very few problems 
>installing progs after the fact??  I hear of Suse being mentioned often, 
>and RedHat for the most part.    I am in need of Reformatting my drives 
>anyway, so I will probably start with a clean disk.  The current partition 
>setup is totally inadequate for my LINUX needs(12 GB for Win, 3.2GB for Linux!)
>
>Thank You,
>Matt Caldwell

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