On Sat, Oct 23, 1999 at 07:40:54PM -0600, Sam wrote:
> My advice is to get the mandrake release too. I'm going through installing
> most of the major releases that you can download or get get from LinuxMall for
> $2.00 in order to write a review on them from a newbie's perspective. Here's
> what I've discovered so far-
>
> Caldera and Red Hat may have prettier installers, but they have BUGS, a couple
> of them are BIG bugs, and don't include anywhere near the applications
They must be humongous to beat the out-of-the-box doozies in Mdk 6.1. I
seem to recall Red Hat is still having problems with their installer as
well.
> Mandrake does. The Suse interface takes going through a couple of times to
> really understand it and get what you want. It has more applications than Red
YaST does take a little getting used to, but you've really got to admire the
thing. It would be great if it weren't proprietary, because I really prefer
working in text mode to do administrative chores.
> Hat ot Caldera but less than Mandrake. Suse leaves out the configuration of
I think you must have something confused if you think SuSE ships with less
apps than RH or Mdk. There are things in SuSE that I've never even SEEN
shipped with any of the other distributions -- look up Mirror Magic, it's an
addicting game!
> some important features for a desktop machine during the install that are part
> of Mandrakes installation routine. Mandrake has been the ONLY distribution
Caldera does a little better than Mandrake at setting up the user
environment, but I think that might be because I can SKIP the
floppy/cdrom/printer icons in Caldera. I don't like 'em, never use 'em.
> that allowed me to pick my sound card from a list when it identified my PCI128
> incorrectly.
>
> I'm getting ready to give TuboLinux a spin. Once that's done I get to start on
> the commercial packages. (Oh my achin' head)
I'd be interested in hearing more about TurboLinux. I've read a bit about
it and I'm rather intrigued. It might just be the next distro on this
machine.
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Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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