How come you didnt mention FreeBsd? It's not bad really stable as a rock.
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From: "Civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2000 4:49 PM
Subject: [expert] Other distros
> Well, much has been said about Mandrake 7.0 problems. I
> thought I would look at some other distros with a nice GUI
> INSTALL to see if anything was better:
>
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 -- SEVERE problems with dhcp
> (basically unusable) And if your sound card isn't supported
> at install the chances of getting anything working are quite
> small. Even their distro of OSS doesn't seem to be able to
> overcome the problem with COAS and the ability or (lack of it)
> to load modules. OTOH, if you are not using dhcp and if your
> sound is detected and properly set up, it is fairly nice.
> Just DON't try to load Sun's version of StarOffice on it,
> because you get annoying and inconsequential error messages
> with every GUI logon(Sun assumes the directory structure is
> different for KDE). Also, all systems I have tried with it,
> the way to get from GUI to console and back without going to
> the gettys is to restart the system. It hangs going from
> GUI to console at the login screen, and also in console mode
> if you type startx or kde.
>
> Corel Linux 1.0--Not a whole lot there, but it seems to be
> good. However an nmap -sS scan puts it down (no joke). Now
> back to the REAL OSes. If nmap broke it from inside, that
> would be OK, but on a LAN or over the internet a scan against
> its IP made it hang.
>
> RH 6.1 -- In the category of "interesting" but hardly
> useful. Non-detection of mice seems to break the gui install.
>
> Independence--Not there yet, but better at modem setup and
> Kppp than Mandrake. It is more oriented toward the user who
> will use it as the only system on a modest computer, and it
> does better at that task than any other I have checked.
>
> Civileme
>
