Linked by Barry Smith on Mon 1st Dec 2003 18:34 UTC
This is the second in my series of reviews for debian-based commercial distros that might be appropriate for SOHO use. The first article covered my exploration of Lindows, and this one is focused on Libranet. Before I get started with Libranet I want to clarify a couple of points. 
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Um, no, they are not necessarily wrong. This could be the result of a sector on the hard drive just starting to go bad. It could be a problem with the software. It could be a random occurence due to outside electromagnetic interference (including the possibility of plain vanilla static).
I have seen installs of just about every Microsoft OS and Linux maybe once or twice (I have dealt with a lower volume of Linux boxes) have a file become corrupted for no apparent reason whatsoever (admittedly with Win9x, it sometimes seems to very much be the fault of the OS, especially if the install is more than a year old), and then have a reinstall of the same OS work fine again for months until an explainable problem showed up, or have it work for a few days or a few weeks and then have the hard drive fail.
The fact is there is no way to be sure why this happened. It could be any of these causes, but without further testing and the passing of time, we have no way to say.