On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:03 pm, Joshua Lee wrote:

On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:36 am, you wrote:

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Any thoughts on how they compare?

Mandrake is unstable, but on the other hand it has more GUI configuration tools. (Though SuSE's YAST2 GUI configurer is very good.) SuSE seems to be very cutting edge too yet careful to have stability in their finished product. Mandrake has ISOs, not to ressurect that thread, while SuSE's shrinkwrapped boxes have reportedly the best manuals of any distribution,

In a previous life I used Mandrake 7.0 and switched to SuSE 7.2pro on the reputation of there manuals. I've often gone back to the Mandrake Manuals for things I couldn't find in the SuSE books. (Both sets of manuals are helpful, both have weaknesses).

and you know your money is going to an excellent team of programmers who have written such things as the 2.4.10 and later VM and much of KDE. What distro you pick depends upon what you're looking for.

My experience was that I had better luck w/ Gnome on Mandrake than on SuSE. Out of The box SuSE Gnome worked fine but the upgrades on the SuSE servers always seem to break some gnome app or other (right now I think niether gnumeric nor gnucash work on my system). I'm pretty happy w/ KDE so I can live w/ that. good day dh

How about "Mandrake is less stable than SuSE 7.3". I gotta tell you I was not a fan of SuSE until 7.3; and I breathed Mandrake until 8.0, things change. I will give Mandrake another chance in 8.2 (I have multiple boxen, so I won't have to blow my new best buddy away). On Monday 18 February 2002 10:40, Haralambos Geortgilakis wrote:

Hi All & Joshua Lee,

who typed....

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Mandrake is unstable...

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Mandrake is NOT unstable on the hardware I've got, Gateway Solo 9100 & TMC-HX430 intel chipset based desktop.

*BFN*

Greek Geek :-)

The Society for the Protection of Tux ISO's--GG

Joshua Lee wrote:

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On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:36 am, you wrote:

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Any thoughts on how they compare?

Mandrake is unstable, but on the other hand it has more GUI configuration tools. (Though SuSE's YAST2 GUI configurer is very good.) SuSE seems to be very cutting edge too yet careful to have stability in their finished product. Mandrake has ISOs, not to ressurect that thread, while SuSE's shrinkwrapped boxes have reportedly the best manuals of any distribution, and you know your money is going to an excellent team of programmers who have written such things as the 2.4.10 and later VM and much of KDE. What distro you pick depends upon what you're looking for.