Okay, you all know how MDK is touted as the easy to config system yadda yadda yadda...
Well, it's true. I got a copy and installed it, the installer is a dream! So is the config, various window managers as standard, the whole works
KDE 3 is WAY slow on my system but IceWM works great.
Now for the bad part
It TOTALLY, and I really MEAN totally screws up network config. It keeps trying to connect to the net over eth0 when I have dialup and have told it so repeatedly. To actually get online I had to manually set my default gateway to the IP address my ISP gave me and that's certainly not MY idea of how to run a server
On top of that, I can't even ping my xp box. The net monitor shows incoming and outgoing packets but neither will ping/whatever the other. There's no firewall (I think I deactivated it, I'm not sure with the crappy net setup on this thing) so that's not blocking it and it's REALLY doing my tree in.
I can set up SuSE (not traditionally the most friendly distro around) but not MDK. I've gone through resolv.conf, hosts, routing tables, the lot. I've tried setting it all up manually but no joy. Basically if you want to run a network (even 2 machines) give MDK a miss is my vote. That said, SuSE 7.2 kept falling over and this one hasn't yet so I'm gonna keep trying till the damn thing works properly even if it kills me.
The joys of crappy config progs