On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 02:20:26PM +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Friday, 14 October 2005 13:14, houghi wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:42:56PM +1000, Peter Flodin wrote: > > > For those that care, distrowatch has for the last month: > > > Page hit rankings: > > > 1 Ubuntu 2970 > > > 2 SUSE 2256 > > > 3 Mandriva 2148 > > > > I tried Mandriva and was unable to get it running. Will try it again as it > > should get my Haupauge PVR 350 running by default. > > > > houghi > > Mandriva is based on Red Hat / Fedora Core
Ummmm, no. RedHat was the inspiration for Mandrake, but it came into it's own after a few years, this was before Fedora existed, and therefore can NOT be called something based off Fedora. It was based on Older ReDHat copies and even that isn't totally right, it was actually designed to be compatible with RedHat, not a clone. > Ubuntu is based on Debian with Gnome as s Desktop Yup, as is Libranet which is much better I think. This has become very popular though and for good reason, I don't use Ubuntu much but it's neat for anyone looking for a toy OS. Real work is for SUSE and Slackware though > Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE as a Desktop > SuSE is... based on SuSE :) SUSE is based / Was based on Slackware in the early days. SUSE sold Slackware for Patrick and then started their own stuff which I believe has surpased it. > I've frequently experienced that not every distro works well on every > computer > (especialy notebooks). I remember a Toshiba that would never run well with > SuSE but performed perfectly with Mandrake. Yes Linux Laptop support has come a LONG way in the last two years. The 2.6 Kernel helped this too. Free BSD is so far behind here it's not even close. > If you like the Debian scheme, you might give a look at Mepis, that provides > a > CD that works as live CD as well as installation CD. Or Libranet ;) then again adding apt-get to another distro does the same thing. > I testdrives SuSE 10.0 and found it good, but I stick to Mepis for the time > being (amongst other things because I could not get some multimedia stuff to > run on SuSE while apt-get with the appropriate repositories get them running > on Mepis. Well, don't give up. I've learned over the two years I've been on Linux that f it doesn't work, wait a month. I could never get online with Linux or get sound at the first Buying a SoundBlaster Live! took care of sound, ditching my slow as crap Dial Up took care of the other problem. It was on SUSE when I got both working. ;) > Thierry > > -- > The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a > capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the > safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? > Frank Zappa > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
