
Consider these memory requirements for Fedora Core 2, as specified by Red Hat:
Minimum for graphical: 192MB and
Recommended for graphical: 256MB Does that sound any alarm bells with you? 192MB minimum? I've been running Linux for five years (and am a huge supporter), and have plenty of experience with Windows, Mac OS X and others. And those numbers are shocking -- severely so. No other general-purpose OS in existence has such high requirements. Linux is
getting very fat.
Let met guess, it is a LG CD-ROM drive? The Mandrake hardware probe in 9.2 kills LG drives due to some LG firmware bug. This can be fixed, just search with google, afaik LG released a firmware update that solves this...