Underneath the glitz and glamor of Mandrake beats the stout heart of
Linux. Without X I can't think of anything worth mentioning that would be
any different be it RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware... et. al. Linux is Linux
when you turn back the covers and look at the bare mattress.
--
Mark
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 Monte Milanuk spake passionately saying:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 04:51:36PM -0700, Tom Schutter wrote:
> > As much as I like Mandrake, it is not the right tool for your job.
> > Use OpenBSD. Installing it without X is trivial, and its security
> > is much better than Linux.
> >
> > http://www.openbsd.org
> >
>
> Agreed. For the ultimate in security, OpenBSD is king. Perhaps I
> rephrase the question: For a box w/o X on it, be it a server, a
> compute server, a log server, firewall, Beowulf node, whatever, what
> benefit does Mandrake have once you take away all the pretty gui tools?
>
> *Note* To those who are lighting off their flamethrowers because I
> question Mandrake like this, keep in mind: It's just that: questioning.
> I'm not trying to trash Mandrake, or any other distro. I'm just
> trying to ascertain pluses and minuses for a given scenario.
>
> TIA
>
> Monte
>
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