Mandrake??

[E Frank Ball]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 03:14:17PM -0800, Tom Rowe (PKV) wrote:
} My question is, I noticed at the meeting and in the few posts I have
} read, most users are referring to RedHat, Suse, and Debian.  I have not
} heard or seen reference to Mandrake.  I started with Redhat, v6.2 and
} 7.0 for learning purposes, as well as Debian.  I found that Mandrake is
} easier to install and work with.  So, finally the question:  Any
} thoughts on Mandrake, good or bad, why not use it, why use it, etc.

Mandrake is based on RedHat, so is TurboLinux and several other
distributions.  Their file structures are identical, and software you
download off the web that is designed for RedHat 6.2 will likely work
with Mandrake (RedHat "broke" the compiler in 7.x so RedHat 7.x binaries
don't run on anything else).  I use Redhat rpms on Turbo and vice versa.

Mandrake is a great distribution.  It's like RedHat without all the bugs
I like to say.  I use it on my laptop.  It is a very sane choice of
Linux distributions.

I use RedHat at work because I need to, that's what people here are
using.  I have it on my desktop because that's what Penguin Computing
put on it.  I've used SuSE on a couple of machines (no longer running),
but I got annoyed by SuSE.  I have Turbo on my firewall, but I'm annoyed
by Turbo.  I'm annoyed by RedHat.  I plan to load a intel/Debian machine
soon and we'll see how that goes.  My pa-risc/Debian experience was not
good, but that distribution is in a very primitive state.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com