On Dec 24 Collins Richey was heard saying: ->Navigate to http://www.elxlinux.com/ for more info. ->My initial experience with this distro is positive:
<snip> ->8) All in all, this looks very much like Mandrake. *** My obvious reaction would be "why not use Mandrake then?" I wouldn't mind a bit more details about why this distro should be preferred above the Mandrake. ->Elx starts every imaginable daemon, including webmin and portmapper ->and mysql. I'll have to *** Yep, that looks much like Mandrake (a.k.a. Red Hat :-). With the slight difference that Mandrake 8.1 asks what daemons you want to start at boot before finishing the install. That is an advance in some respect. Elx sounds to me as pre Mandrake 8.1, where the so called novice distributions would start the most obscure and unnecessary daemons so the newbies could be more easily hacked... Cheers, Zoran. -- "Software is like sex, It's better when it's Free..." -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
