[plug] Mandrake 9.1

[Weirdo]

I tried mandrake twice as well. The first time it was my first distro early 
last year (RH wouldn't fit on my small 500mb hdd until i set up a raid a 
few weeks later). From what I used back then it was to easy coming from a 
dos background. I moved to RH and then to Debian. I have also installed 
mandrake 9.something and liked it. I have installed it on my main machine 
and on a 496 32mb ram. (took about 1 week)
Mandrake is still the best beginners distro but when a small job or large 
job comes up Debian is the most versatile.
I have a small testing server running on a box mdk didn't like and my main 
box tipple boots Debian, XP (main desktop for web developing) and server 
2003 (the fastest windows ever) (just for testing.
As for the 3rd CD, I only used the first 2.
At 10:53 AM 9/05/2003 +0800, you wrote:
> >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.
>
>This is amazing. It's when I install RH, that I get whinges about
>misaligned partitions, and unable to install LILO because the partition
>isn't on a cylinder boundary, etc. SuSE and Mandrake (and Windows FWIW)
>just install where I tell them. As I result I tend to think of RH as being
>unnecessarily fussy.
>
> >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.
>
>In what way? (not antagonistic - I'd like to know)
>
> > 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.
>
>Mandrake's always had a bit of a problem with older hardware. Remember that
>they started out in the early Pentium days, offering RH with all RH
>references changed to Mandrake, but with more bleeding edge packages and
>kernels optimised for Pentium. Just the way they positioned themselves. Ran
>faster on a Pentium than bog standard RH did.
>
>Haven't tried the text based install.
>
> >Just my 2c worth
>
> >Tim  Bowden
>
>RichardM

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