personally i would never consider mandrake ever. its major bloatware (so flame me *shrug*)
debian is really really good. I havent used fedora but redhat was seriously becoming bloatware and i just left it. mandrake took redhat and just bloated it more.
if debian is a little raw for you (no offence if it is) then you might want to look at suse. slackware is still out there and kicking as well. ive really been meaning to run crux (linux) on something also. i much prefer the BSD boot system so crux looks good from where i sit.
personally i run linux on desktops (mainly ppc's at this moment) with freebsd and openbsd servers. granted freebsd is a bit bloated but openbsd is supremely light.
ok this is a linux list but dont look past the bsd's ;)
in summary. forget mandrake. most likely forget fedora check out debian, check out suse, check out crux. check out slackware
Dean
Phill wrote:
I have been playing around with linux for a little while now and want to setup a web server that incorporates webdav and jsp largely for uni
I currently use mandrake 10 because of the simplicity to setup. What is the general feeling about mandrake amongst SLUG and is there a better flavour to use. Bearing in mind that I have definite time constraints so it must be quick & easy to install and maintain plus cope with multimedia. How does mandrake compare with fedora and debian?
Phill
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