RE: [Nolug] Distro suggestions

Is there anything positive/negative to say about Mandrake? ( I know Ron
likes it. )

I've been with RH camp for years and just couple of weeks ago installed
Mandrake on one of my computers. The immediate positive thing I realized
that my video card was supported at least partially. (I haven't got the
second part to work yet tho) The card is Radeon 7500 (All-in-wonder) The
Gatos project for the TV in/out is very iffy, but seems to have RPM's for
Mandrake. KDE 3.1 seems nice.

With RH9 the video card drivers kept the machine locking up every 5-10
minutes. I still use RH7.3 for all my servers. Will see if the hosting
provider makes any offer to go for RH Enterprise for free.

P

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Brett D. Estrade
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 8:15 AM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Distro suggestions
>
>
> No holy war needed. Try out each of the suggestions. I prefer FreeBSD,
> and guess what? It is not going to sell out on us anytime soon.
>
> As far as linux goes, I would go with something like Slackware or Gentoo,
> but guess what, again? There are tons of distros out there, so find one
> you like based on your experience...
>
> Brett
>
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 06:26:40 -0600, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> said:
> > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 03:43, Tim Kelley wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 9:46 pm, mah@everybody.org wrote:
> > >
> > > > Debian is about individuals empowering other indiduals. So, of
> > > > course, I've gotta use it. Despite the fact that it may have a few
> > > > more rough edges than other distributions, it is owned and
> maintained
> > > > entirely by its users. Being a hacker and UNIX-lover,
> Debian is what
> > > > I want since it embodies a sustainable model for continuous
> > > > development.
> > >
> > > Well, I don't think debian is "rougher around the edges" than
> any other
> > > distro, it's more polished if anything. The installers just a little
> > > plain.
> >
> > Totally true. I just reinstalled Debian (h/w failure), and it
> > is totally simple for someone who knows what LKMs are. If you
> > don't, it'll be kinda rough.
> >
> > > I think the last decent distribution RH put out was 5.2
> > > SuSE got that damn YaST thing, which I depsise ...
> > > rpm is horrid, so any distro using that isn't worth looking at to me
> > > Slack is OK for a personal computer
> >
> > Why is RPM horrid? Because there is no Policy and "structure", like
> > Debian has set up? That's what I think.
> >
> > IMO, Debian is like Apple with the Mac (Packagers, follow these
> > Rules, and Users will love the system), whereas RH is like MSFT
> > (Developers, here's an installer, go throw some slop together).
> >
> > > Debian is the biggest and the best! Debian vs RH is like Godzilla vs
> > > Bambi ... :-)
> >
> > Biggest at what?
> >
> > (Yes, I use and love
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> > Jefferson, LA USA
> >
> > "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of
> > government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow
> > operations, perverted it into tyranny."
> > Thomas Jefferson
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