Last few days I was experimenting on some distributions, they are Fedora Core 4, Suse and Mandrake Limited Edition 2005.
The way Mandrake & Suse comes in front of users is quite relaxing. You can find both Fat32 and NTFS partitions are mounted automatically. Mandrake comes with all the Multimedia tools for playing audio and video. But It's quite impossible to compile applications and install that. May be Mandrake don't like other applications to interrupt in it's structure. Even I tried to execute some distribution independent applications and they are not execution. For example you can download http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.7/contrib/mozilla-1.7-i686-pc-linux-gnu-gtk2-xft-pango.tar.gz and try to execute that. It didn't run on Mandrake Limited Edition 2005 but it was OK in Suse and FC. About Suse, I think all RPM based distributions has same it's easy to upgrade or install applications from YaST, but it would be problem if you want to install a RPM yourself. Same thing happened for FC. They wanted to implement APT (Synaptic package manager) in there system, but when I tried to install a software, he asked me what dependency (SO files) I have to install before installing the package. That's wired, in Debian I just have to select a package and it does everything automatically. So I think Debian is good for beginners. Omi > In my Mandrake 10.0 it's more easy to update. Even i can install more > packages > which are not available on the CD with simple mouse click with short > time. I > only need to add the mirror list and then chose the item from the > packages. > > It's soo simple. > --------------------------- > S. M. Ibrahim To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
