Star Review: Moving to the Linux Business Desktop By Marcel Gagné
Linked by Will Senn on Wed 13th Oct 2004 19:41 UTC
Features, Office This is Marcel Gagné's third book with Addison-Wesley following, Linux System Administration: A User's Guide and Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!. Marcel is also the well-respected author of Linux Journal's, Cooking with Linux. The author has written this excellent book with near-perfect timing.
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Stability
by Anonymous on Fri 15th Oct 2004 20:31 UTC

To be fair, on both of my Athlon systems, and a laptop I recently installed Mandrake 10 on - almost no modern Linux will boot without me passing 'acpi=off noapic nolapic' parameters to the kernel.

This is most likely due to buggy ACPI implementations from both Asus, Soltek and whatever chipset was in the Acer laptop - but the fact that Linux is incapable of detecting this and falling back to a 'safer mode' instead of simply freezing, kernel-paniccing or crashing seems a bit of an omission.

I can only imagine how confusing this is for newbies who have heard how wonderful linux is and the kernel just crashes on boot on their machines.