Re: "supported" hardware

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:28:31 -0800
John Andersen <jsa-qezjBH/[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thursday 02 October 2003 06:15, David Blomber wrote:
> >         In fact the Only Linux install that picks up the ServeRAID 6M card
> > by default is SuSE 8.2 (out of the few I have tried).
> 
> Well there you go!  
> SuSE and IBM have a partnership of sorts, and IBM didn't
> lie to you, it is Linux compatible.  And further they did you
> a favor steering you to a much better Distro.
> 
> (Putting hard hat on now and running and ducking). ;-)

You better do...

It's the "it takes me ages to figure how to get this and that working issue" I
run into at Linux all the time. recently I spent 15 minutes on phone to get a
friends machine with a Knoppix HD-installation to connect to the net. Fifteen
fucking minutes. And all because of a default gateway which shouldn't be
there.