Hi, you mentioned something about hardware detection.... could you tell more about this.
Actually, I can not use my sound card , and my vga is not functioning properly since I installed MDK ... I am a new bie and i guess it might be due to my lack of experience... do you have any tips.... :) Thanks gadir >From: Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: ExpertMandrake-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, NewbieMandrake-List ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [expert] Why u guys are using mandrake rather than other linux >flavours >Date: 12 Mar 2002 11:20:03 -0500 > >On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 05:33, Hari Yellina wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am just wondering , why u guys are using mandrake over other linux >flavour > > . Can u guys tell me the advantages, > > > > Thank you, > > > > Hari Yellina > >Hari, > >Back in the "old" days, there was Slackware. I loved the Slack >experience; but there were some problems. One main dig was that any >tarball packages that I installed could not be uninstalled, except by >manual deletion. There was no such thing as "dependencies", or tracking >of package pieces by database, or anything like that. As you can >imagine, this got old fast; Slack distro installs could get foobarred in >no time flat. Well, in the time it would take to install a crappy >tarballed application, actually. Then you'd spend half a day tracking >down uncensored library updates. > >I got involved with Red Hat in the corporate arena in my second unix >sysadmin job. I had been prejudiced against Red Hat previous to this >time, because for one thing just the name itself pissed me off. However >my technical director had standardized our shop on the distro, so I made >it my business to know the system inside and out. I really fell in love >with the RPM package system, and although I heard many legends about apt >and Debian, we never considered them a player; partly because there was >no corporate infrastructure that supported either us as customers or >others as employees in the linux world, and partly because we never >could get a valid demonstration of why exactly apt was superior to the >rpm package manager. The Red Hat package manager was a sysadmin's >dream; it allowed for consideration of upgrades with regard to wether >you were going to "break" something or not; in other words, if two >packages used the same libraries, but different versions of those >libraries, the rpm install routine informed you of that fact. This was >a very fulfilling experience for a Slackware graduate. > >A year into the job, although I became a Red Hat lover, I began to see >shortcomings of the distro. For one thing, all the damn packages were >only optimized for an 80386 processor. That meant that all the >microprocessor instructions that had been added since the advent of the >386 were missing from every Red Hat RPM package in existence, since all >they had were 386 optimized packages. So supposing you invested in a >Pentium 2 processor box, some of your money was thrown to the wind if >you used Red Hat, since the next generation abilities of the processor >were like tits on a boar hog. I then started looking around for >something else; I knew about source rpm packages, did NOT want to lose >the Red Hat package manager, and had seen SRPM's optimized for 586. I >wondered by chance if it had occurred to anyone to produce a RPM based >distro on 586 optimized RPM packages. > >That day, a shining light broke from the heavens, blasting through the >ceiling of our shop, and the Mandrake distro dropped right into my lap; >a gift from Heaven itself. (actually I found them with a web search; >that just sounded better.) > >I laboriously ftp'd the distro in off the t1 line (had trouble getting >bandwidth at the source sites)and proceeded to install Mandrake on one >of the AMD boxes. After that it was like a nitrous oxide scene from >"The Fast and the Furious". That box was blazing fast. Since then, >I've not looked back or to either side. > >The incredible install and hardware detection routines in Mandrake, for >me, have been only a big extra bonus. > >Cheers, > >LX > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
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