Burt wrote: > > Hi Louis: > I would agree that the Mandrake 10.1 was and is solid. Since I > started out with 8.2 which I got at Staples and was my learning tool. I > subsequently joined the club when I got the boxed version of 10.1. > Initially there was support from the club and from the professionals for > money. Initially the switch to Mandriva looked good but in my experience > went down hill fast. I am not a programmer. Since I know the basics and > hate the task I never became proficient at it. I may get calmed down and > get the 2008 or later boxed version. > TNX Burt > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > > Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) > Aug 6 - Zenos > Sep 3 - TBD > > Well-FWIW I lean towards RPM systems because that's what I started with and Red Hat was the best I found out there. I was unhappy when they left the desktop world, so I tried RHEL. It was never installed as it needed to. format the entire disk, which had several HPFS partitions on it. Tried Fedora, and stayed there until the upgrade had to format the entire disk. Had Fedora and Mandrake still on the machine-tried Suse and liked that. But a glitch in GRUB with SCSI/SATA demolished it to the point where it refused to install over itself-needed a disk format. Mandrake and Fedora survived that. So-here I am on Mandriva. Someone on this list once said if you're happy with a distro, stick with it. I took that advice until I tried Ubuntu, which I really disliked. There are too many Linuxes available, so I'm staying with Mandriva. However they conduct themselves, the system is configured the way I like it, and after years of abuse I can tell you it sure is durable. I think I'm better off in the long run.
Louis _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
