John, Mandriva has improved a lot in the last couple years. I don't subscribe to any of their programs. I only use Mandriva 2010 One, it's free and it's fine. It's not perfect, but no distro is. I normally use Gnome, but their KDE version is very good. Plus, their forum is one of the most helpful I've used.
Try it for yourself and see. Arch Linux is also very good. Takes more time to set up but from my experience it's cutting edge with more stability than Fedora. Good luck On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:27 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:38:05 -0800 > Tony Rick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > uh-oh. From an earlier post, John sez: > > > > "I'd run Windows before I'd run Mandriva". > > But not because it may not be a good distro. Four years ago when I was > starting > with Linux I signed up online for their download-the-latest service. When I > later discovered that Mandriva was not for me I tried to cancel the > subscription. There was no place on the web site to cancel and they never > responded to numerous e-mails. I literally had to get my bank to issue me a > new > card number to get the monthly charges to stop. And then they finally > responded > with an e-mail that I owed them money and they would take me to collections > if > I did not pay up. They're located in France, which makes them effectively > beyond the reach of US law for small issues. > > Some of us consumers have long memories. > > Today's exercise is to see if I can figure out package management in > OpenSuse > 11.1. I think I have all the standard repos enabled, but some very common > software is not appearing in the Manage Software GUI. Also I need to figure > out > what is the equivalent of apt-get, dpkg and aptitude so I can use the > command > line.Also, I keep reading tidbits that you can use Synaptic with OpenSuse, > but > I don't know how that would work. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
