Excellent HW compatibility w/ 5.10

[Derek Broughton]

Lionel wrote:

> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> In case people were getting tired of reading my whinging about
>> fonts and how I screwed up my first install attempt, I just
>> wanted to report that the HW detection and support in 5.10 has
>> been excellent.
>> 
>> So far I've found 4 hardware compatibility issues where
>> Mandrake 10.1 fell down but 5.10 has worked flawlessly:
...
>>  4) Under Mandrake, hitting ctrl-alt-backspace in X11 usually
>>     horked the Mach64 video card and required a reboot.  No
>>     problem in Ubuntu.

This is probably not Ubuntu, so much as xorg (I don't know what Mandrake
uses, but I suspect it's xfree86).  Of course, it's a big deal that Ubuntu
decided to go with xorg, since Debian's only just getting around to it.
> 
> Just wondering, is there a competition here with Mandriva? Either way,
> shouldn't you be comparing with at least Mandriva 2005LE, the equivalent
> to 5.10 would really be Mandriva 2006.

I agree that 10.1 seemed a little unfair.
-- 
derek