Re: [PLUG] distro for laptop?

["eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org>]

Thanks Mike.  I found this out a few weeks ago - after I switched all
of my Mandrake systems (2) to SuSE.

I understand that the Mandrake 8.2 Beta has solved most, if not all,
of the problems.

Eric

On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:23:31AM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> >Mandrake 8.1 on the other hand, picked up the audio just fine but something called devfs kept screwing with the devices and
> >really caused me some trouble trying to upgrade the workstation.
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> DevFS is not a Mandrake invention, altho they did start using it sooner than some other distros. It's supposed to dynamically make device entries in /dev. You can turn it off in LILO really easily, tho, and go back to standard ("older"?) method.
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