On Friday 17 January 2003 02:42 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 17 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Les Henderson wrote: > >>I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros > > > >For me, a straightforward install that recognised all the hardware I need > > on a regular basis (despite problems with camera and smartmedia reader), > > and, above all, this list/community, which has helped me learn a lot - > > and will continue to do so, I believe. > > > >Anne > > I would echo that. > John
And I would add, the Mandrake toolkit does some stuff that no other distro can match. I can't live without Menudrake and Fontdrake, and last time I installed RH (7.x or something), I had to download CUPS -- absolutely the best printer management/configuration system I've ever used. I've used Debian (started with it, and apt get is even better than urpmi but a dearth of config tools there), a couple of different Caldera's (o.k. distro, actually, but bare bones), a couple of Suse releases (very good, but always a generation behind Mandrake), Corel (don't go there), RH 5,6,7 (installer still sucks, after all these years, and the RH menu structure is completely illogical to me) and every Mandrake from 7.0 to 8.2, including the 486 version of 7 (I don't use 9.0 because I really, really like 8.2, and everything I have works flawlessly with it -- and I probably won't install 9.0-- the next upgrade of kde may spur me to move to the next version of 9 though). And Knoppix, which is really cool to just play around with or to check to see if a computer's hardware is linux compatible. I've also installed Mandrake on several friends machines and it must be easy to use because they are still friends (and they rarely use Windows for anything, any more). e
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