[plug] RedHat/Mandrake

[Beau Kuiper]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, John Knight wrote:

> Good to see some "hardkore" users with a "capital 4"! Mandrake 8.1 should be
> pretty good when that's released as Mandrake is one of my favoured distros
> (along with turbolinux). As for the clunkiness, try using the Reiser or XFS
> file system to speed things up a bit and make sure that you configure your
> kernel.

I already use reiserfs under slackware (got sick of 3d video drivers
crashing system, requireing an fsck)

I actually don't think too badly of redhat and mandrake, but I was
being slightly sarcastic to emphisis how people bond with a particular
distribution (or set of) and how different distributions suit different
people. The only real way to find out which one you like is to try many of
them.

I really like slackware because it boots quickly (I do have to turn my
computer off at night), I don't get a bad feeling when I use .tar.gz
files, and the small install size. I like the install because it isn't
demanding on hardware (no graphics), and you can configure exactly what
you wan't to install (without 100 submenus). I like it because it doesn't
strive to include everything including the kitchen sink, and still fits on
one CD. I like it bacuse it runs fine on 8meg systems (or at least it used
to).

Thanks
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au

>
> seeya then! :)
> anarchist tomato
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Preserve wildlife, pickle a duck.
>
> >
> >Evil laugh,
> >
> >Both redhat and mandrake suck :-)
> >
> >Redhat feels clunky in operation, mandrake is worse and just often doesn't
> >work at all.
> >
> >The only distribution I have been happy with is slackware.
> >
> >There thats my opionon. As you can see, we all love/like different
> >distributions, and will defend our choices/opinions to the edge of the
> >universe (if not far beyond). So the best advice I can give is to find
> >some time and try several of them to find which is the best for YOU.
> >
> >If you don't have time to do this, then the distribution you choose is not
> >going to matter too much. Most of them are similar, and you are not going
> >to have time to worry about the differences between them anyway.
> >
> >Beau Kuiper
> >kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
> >
> >On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, NVT Australia wrote:
> >
> > > As a Newbie checking them all......
> > >
> > > I installed Red Hat 7.1, Mandrake 8, Debian 2.2R3 (oh headache), Corel
> >Ed 2
> > > and Suse 7.1 and even though I am pretty green I found Red Hat 7.1 was
> >so
> > > easy to install and looks very clean to work with. Most features of the
> >OP
> > > SYS were really well laid out.
> > >
> > > My vote goes to Red Hat 7.1.
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
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