>> I would agree that the Mandrake 10.1 was and is solid. > 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,...
Not to start a distro war, but I've had much the opposite experience with Mandriva (at the time Mandrrake). I had been using it up through 10.0, perhaps even 10.1. Personally I found it's stability degrading over the years, as though the company decided that quality control was too expensive, so laid off the entire department. There were always systems over the years that I could never get a good working build on (new installs or upgrades). The major issue for me with Mandriva had been it's networking. The networking configuration on their systems seemed to be of the Microsoft school, where they decide *THEY* know better than you how your system should be set up. More often than not the networking would simply not work, although adding the noacpi settings at boot might fix the problem; something in how they built their kernels was bad, and no other distribution had the problem. And once you got past that problem, the un-documented automatic network reconfiguration in Mandrake would break your hand-repaired networking within the first few reboots after you fixed their breakage. In the end, I found it worked less and less for me, and eventually removed it from everyplace I had it. The last system I cleared it off of was my father's machine (since he had to bring it down from Vermont for me to reload it). If Mandriva works good for you, then great. But I don't want some other readers to think Mandriva is the be-all, end-all, perfect solution. I'd hate for it to fail on them and have them thinking it is a failure of Linux in general. _______________________________________________ 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
