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  From: Matthew Geddes <mgeddes@xavier.sa.edu.au>
  To  : Bruce Moffatt <bmoffatt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:04:13 +0930

Re: reviews Manduck 8.0? and hw woes

Bruce Moffatt wrote:
> 
> Hi list, font of all knowledge.
> 
> I have got to the stage with my system (Manduck 7.2) where it is time to
> do a major refresh, and I seek some input from those with current
> knowledge and recent experience. The need for refresh happens when so
> many feral patches and non-standard updates have been applied that the
> rpms for security updates constantly whine about broken (pah!)
> dependencies etc etc. and eventually fail to load (Oh how I long for the
> Slackware tarball days when I ran my own system and owned all the
> decisions, but I digress...)

Perhaps something like FreeBSD (or any other BSD) would more suit you.
:-)

> I have not seen a local review of Manduck 8.0. Any horror stories or
> recommendations?

It's very nice. The install is a fair bit better, it supports ReiserFS
better, it comes with a 2.4.x kernel....

I wouldn't recommend using Nautilus unless you have a heap of system
resources to throw at eye candy (but it is *nice* eye candy).

> Also, while I am at it, I must report the imminent demise of my once
> trusty ex-Micro-arts box. Like george washington's axe it has had six
> new handles and three new heads, but apart from that it is still the
> same opld 486 i bought many years aog in Melb. (Actually it is now a
> 6x86 PR200 in a Rhino 12+ MB with so many bits I ca't keep track of
> them... but again I digress...) This old box is now greeting me with an
> annoying beeeep beeep beeep on applying power 4 time out of 5, so I
> guess it is time to finally look for a replacement. Any strong
> recommendations re a desktop replacement box (strictly Linux only OS)
> would be gratefully received.

All of my boxes start out as butchered old machines and usually turn
into unix machines with whatever hardware I can find lying around the
place.

HIHelps,
Matt

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