[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

[./aal]

Kevin Brannen wrote:
> 
> Greg Edwards wrote:
> >
> > I'm giving very serious consideration to switching my systems from RH
> > 6.1 to Mandrake 7.1 and I'd like to get some feedback to those that have
> > been using it.  I don't want to start a distrib war here so I'm not
> > interested in its better comments:)  I've also considered S.U.S.E. but
> > I'd like to keep the RPM packager approach and the XFree 4.0 is
> > attractive to me as well. ...
> 
> I'll not touch the distro war thing, but will make a small correction to your
> statement in case you want to reconsider...
> 
> If you look at SuSE 6.x, you'll find that it is RPM based; or at least there
> are RPMs all over my CDs. :-)  That doesn't touch the Pentium based build
> issue, or probably other Mandrake issues, obviously.
> 


SuSE uses rpms  ...but only suse rpms
A friend if mine is running SuSE and has almost given up on linux as
a result of SuSE's "uniqueness". SuSE has a very different approach
to most every function and service. Which makes almost every HOWTO
and any other general audience help doc confusing in the extreme.
And with the learning curve of linux, anything that steepens the
path should be avoided.

SuSE IS a great distro
just NOT for newbies


If you want to try Mandrake7.1, I have the 2 install CD's from their
site, drop me a line, we can work it out.;)

./aal