Well, Mandrake 9.2 is stable, definitely runs AxKit fine with NO farting around, and its basically pretty much laid out the same as Red Hat. The installer is one of the best ones you can find, and in general the 'Mandrake Control Center' is pretty nice. It gives you gurpmi, the graphical package manager. Maybe thats not QUITE as sophisticated as portage or apt-get, but honestly its perfectly fine for my needs and I run a lot of web servers that have highly customized setups for people. I've had very few security problems, updates are prompt, packages are the most recent in most cases (though they are a ways behind on libxml2/libxslt, still the ones that come in the RPMs seem to be working fine for me).
The other nice thing is its a very high quality desktop distro as well, so I don't have to support 2 or 3 different Linux distros. That was always the achilles heel of RH (aside from they are clueless about how to properly configure Perl and Apache), their desktop support is poop. On Tuesday 09 December 2003 7:08 am, Robert Ferney wrote: > I'm in the middle of a re-install, and I don't feel like *fixing* redhat > 9 (again) ... > > Which linux package would yall sugest? > > I've been using RedHat mostly because I'm used to it, and where they put > all their files.. That and their install process ( assuming you don't > want to change much after the fact ) is pretty easy.. > > I would like to have a pretty user friendly install, and as much of the > packages that AxKit depends on installed from the start.. (Apache > 1.3/Perl/Mod-Perl would be preferred to have on that list) mostly > because I'm a lazy butt and don't want to have to work hard to get this > to work. > > Yall's input is most appreciated ... Thanks > > -Rob > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Tod Harter Giant Electronic Brain http://www.giantelectronicbrain.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
