[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake (was: Video card recommendations)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 08:47 -0500, tr_data1 wrote:
> I don't wish to start a distro-war but felt compelled to counter the
> tendancy for a few people to (IMO) over-state their poor experience
> with Mandrake (now Mandriva).

Actually, I was trying to do the opposite.  I was saying that most
everyone I know of (i.e., 2nd hand knowledge here) says Mandrake 9 on-
ward is quite good.

My limited Mandrake deployment after the original 5.3 was 6.0 - 8.1, and
I ran into installer-time issues (although I could often work around
them).  Installers are _not_ a good test of a distro's capabilities,
since they are 0% usage.

> Rather, I have had a very positive experience with Mandrake for many years.
> True, I happened to not install 9.1 (went from 8.2 to 9.2) and did not
> own that brand of CD drive for that matter. To each his own.

Again, installation is not using Linux, so it's a poor test of a distro.
I know many people quite satisfied with Mandrake.

I'm looking forward to the Mandriva and am already playing with SmartPM
for Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux configuration management.


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