Thanks! That's great information. Just for clarification, are you using standard Desktop releases, or are you using the Mandrake Corporate Server or something else?
Michael On Sunday 11 July 2004 09:26 pm, Jason Tower wrote: > virtually all of my clients are currently (or soon will be) running > mandrake. after using redhat for a couple of years, i switched to > mandrake and have been extremely pleased with it, both as a desktop and > a server. it has proven to be stable, secure, and easy to manage and > update. > > - excellent implementation of KDE (unlike rh/fedora - i don't care for > gnome and i don't care for bluecurve) > > - standard command line tools work as they should, unlike suse (witness > the useless useradd command, among others) > > - a huge collection of RPMs are available, most of them right on the > CDs. *WAY* more than rh/fedora deliver > > - a "loaded" kernel with lots of available modules (when trying to > rescue a client's mac hard drive a few months ago, mandrake was the > only distro that could read the HFS+ filesystem out of the box) > > - urpmi, though a tad difficult to get working sometimes, does a great > job of handling updates, rpm dependencies, etc > > - a fast, flexible, powerful installer. far more flexible than > fedora's, and accomodates network installs much better than suse's > > i've tried almost all of the major distros out there and mandrake has > the best pro/con ratio (debian was close though). and this isn't just > an academic discussion for me either, my business depends on my ability > to install, configure, and manage linux servers. if they fail - i > fail. > > jason > > On Sunday 11 July 2004 20:36, Michael Hrivnak wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > In conversations here and elsewhere, it seems to me that Mandrake has > > been labeled a good competitor for the desktop market, but I rarely > > hear them mentioned or considered for use in business applications. > > Since I know many of you are involved in making decisions about what > > software a business will use, I'd like to hear opinions on Mandrake's > > business server software. For a refresher: > > > > http://www.mandrakesoft.com/businesses/ > > > > So, what has your experience been? > > > > If you don't have any experience with it, why have you chosen other > > solutions instead? > > > > I'm just looking for some productive discussion about the ups and > > downs of why Mandrake does or doesn't get used in business settings. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
