[plug] Mandrake 9.1

[Tim Bowden]

Simon Scott wrote:

>
>I would take that a step further and say its the best linux ever made.
>
>Why would someone with more advanced skills dislike the ease of installation,
>or the lack of bugs?
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>  
>
I have installed (or tried to) Mandrake twice- and both times I didn't 
like it.  The first time in mid 2000 (what version would that have 
been?) I had to do some fiddling with the partition table (1024 cyl 
limit stuff with duel boot) and I needed fdisk-   that was as far as I 
got before going back to rh in disgust.  If it wasn't going to provide 
decent tools in the installer then I wasn't interested.

The second time was about 6 or 8 months ago when I installed it for a 
friend.  It was ok but it seemed to tell me less about what it was doing 
than rh does which I didn't like.

 Does mandrake still dislike 486's?  Does it do a decent text based 
install?  If I'm putting linux on an old box then it sometimes won't 
have the grunt to do a gui install.

Just my 2c worth

Tim  Bowden