On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Brian Chabot wrote:
> For upgradability, I give SuSE the highest ratings. Yast2 does a great
> job at finding pagkages to upgrade. Mandrake is decent as well, but you
> need to enter the setup/install program (I guess Yast2 is in this
> category, too<g>) and choose 'upgrade' and ftp/http install. I haven't
> had any other distros installed long enough to have to upgrade yet...
>
> For maintenance, both Mandrake and SuSE are fairly easy and
> straightforward. Yast2 does pretty much everything linuxconf does but
> with less graphics yet a more intuitive text-based menu
> interface. Mandrake's DrakConf is an X app, but it is also more
> intuitive than linuxconf IMO. For installing/uninstalling software,
> RPM's are beautiful things. I ether use the cli or kpackage in SuSE or
> DrakRPM (I think that's what it's called) in Mandrake. Any one of these
> is pretty easy to figure out. The only drawbacks are that SuSE's
> directory structure is a bit different from RedHat (Mandrake is fully
> compatable w/ RH), and that almost everything in third party software is
> made basically for RedHat.
>
Just a comment: Linuxconf has three front ends: an X based one
(glinuxconf), a web front end, and an ncurses front end. I routinely
use that one, no graphics at all. I personally find the interface
"intuitive" but as I have learned in CHI (computer-human interface),
intuitive means you're used to it.
Personnally, I don't like YasT, my experience has been that it "knows"
where everything is on the CDs, so you don't have to. I personnally
like knowing what is where, in particular what is on each disk, so I
can separate the free from the non-free.
But, to each his own.
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Karl J. Runge wrote:
> > I sense myself wanting to get off of Redhat after using it for the past
> > 3 years, perhaps going to Debian or back to Slack... it would be nice
> > to hear of the longer-term gotchas of these relative to RH.
>
> If you use RPM's, and you're used to RedHat, try Mandrake. It's very
> similar and comes with a few extra toys. SuSE is a bit different, but
> it's still Linux.
On Debian - I've been trying to get going on it, but had a problem
with my notebook that I was installing it on (it looks like it may be
a hardware problem, not a Linux problem). What little I've played
with it, the upgradability is wonderful: apt-get install <foo>, it
grabs it from where you told it to look in the sources file (pure
text, easy to edit), finds dependencies, downloads, installs. As soon
as I have a working notebook, I may try again.
Note that this was with the "Potato" version that's in testing - the
install is tremendously improved over the older "Slink" version, in
some ways easier than Red Hat. Of course, in other ways, harder. But
definitely worth looking at in my opinion.
jeff
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