RE: Linux should better cope with power failure

Otto, If you are doing development work (or playing with new kernels) and things like USB failures lock you from keyboard and mouse... Have you considered telnet into your box from a second machine? Even a 486 system would do this fine... network cards are cheap. You could try to recover the s

Better testing of hardware (was: Defective Read Hat)

Part of the issue is that there exists no "easy to use" standardized test software. Full 32-bit concurrent use of many devices can reveal problems that users do not often see in normal applications. One major hardware review site found stability problems with the Intel Pentium 3 1130Mhz processo

newbie, 2.4.0 on Asus CUSL2 (Intel 815E chipset with onboard video)

Thanks for the prior help on getting the kernel to compile; real newbie mistake of not finding the right options in the "make menuconfig" screens. I can now compile 2.4.0-test, but it hangs on the first line of loading. -- I have tried 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11-pre4 -- If I only do my netw