As mentioned earlier though I have taken to testing installs with Connectix VPC as well as doing bare metal installs. Am doing these both at home on my 4 home built servers & 2 notebooks (old reliables I wont throw out). My home PC machines have both ATA100 & SCSI disks. The work machines are DELL Servers with fast SCSI disks. At work also use Dell notebook with Connectix VPC.

[link|http://www.connectix.com|Connectix web site]

I also agree with the many Mandrake supporters about how much cleaner it is to work with - it really is user friendly (except as was happening with Mandrake 7.2 on my home growns - script failures & no way forward). But even that same 7.2 installs under Connectix VPC. Mandrake 8.1 is what RH should be. The frustration here of course, is that in our corporate env we can only recommend what the big boys go with (IBM Oracle etc:) so we are establishing RH 7.2 with the new journalled filesystem as our corporate base, hence the training we are doing. Mandrake's Apache is a better set up (with SSL out of the box), their config stuff seems to work & is way ahead of RH (as far as I can tell).


I also use Connectix on wife's Apple iBook - am going to try RH 7.2 on it. Already have Win98 running under a VPC on her machine (needed for old copy of quicken).

I wonder if we should recommnend to the Register guy to try Mandrake 8.1


PS Has Register been hacked - those opening gtraphics don't look right (grin)

Cheers

Doug