I totally agree Terry. After having used Mandrake for 18 months I thought had better check on other distros, just in case I was being blind to their merits. Red Hat 8 's install went very nicely, and the fonts were great, but when I tried to actually 'do things' in it I found I missed all the little tools and facilities I took for granted with Mandrake. The package management for example is dreadful by comparison.
Libranet was nice, and the apt-get servers seem to be faster than the servers Mandrake use for urpmi, but there were no tools for setting anything up at all, and the menus contained entries for every darned utility installed!! So I guess I will not be changing distros soon(Especially not after having just renewed Mandrake Club membership) derek On Friday 29 Nov 2002 12:43 am, Terry Smith wrote: > I've been on this list a fairly long time in 'newbie' years, a little > over a year at this point! > > I started out with Mandrake 7.2 and progressed to 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. > However, for the last several months I have not been using Mandrake. > > Instead, I've been doing a 'distro a week', installing Red Hat 7.2, 7.3 > (the 'official' system at work), and Red Hat 8.0 on a number of boxes. > My main computer at home runs Gentoo and I have another running a new > install of Libranet (Debian based). > > I've remianed subscribed to this list because there is useful advice, > good tips, and because a lot of folks on the list are awesome in their > knowledge! > > Before I rattle on too long...I installed Mandrake 9.0 on this box last > night. I'm very impressed. > > My logitech webacm was immedidately detected and xawtv installed (no > other distro did that). My HP500PSC printer/copier/scanner was detected > as an Office Jet R40 (which usually happens and works fairly well as a > CUPS printer) *but* Mandrake knew it had a scanner built in and > installed a xsane backend. I can scan with Kooka! This is the first time > I ever got the scanner to actually work > > Mandrake installed the arts soundserver which is much better quality > than the alsa sound server I had been using. > > The menu structure is much more intuitive and easy to use than the mess > Red Hat makes out of menus. > > In fact, I have given up on RH 8.0's Bluecurve look altogether. It's too > 'dummied down' to allow easy access to the apps I'm used to and totally > fouls up the desktop when I switch back and forth between KDE or Gnome > in Gentoo versus KDE or Gnome in Red Hat where both distros use a shared > /home directory. > > The MCC is a marvel.. > > I could go on, but I'm super impressed and can't believe I wanderred > away from Mandrake for so long. Kudos to Mandrake. > > Terry Smith > Cape Cod USA
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