Of course everyone here is a Suse user, but anyone with experience using Mandriva and their support?
From the business point of view, it is extremely convenient for Suse to keep this mailing list running as a primary support line for thousand of users. I don't think any other distro has such a rich resource as this list.
Anyone can feedback me about Mandrake support? I'm in the middle of "wait for version 10 to be released AND internationally shiped" or "just go ahead and get another user friendly distro". I get the feeling that NOT USING SUSE is to be walking by myself when needing some help. Any feedback? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
Of course everyone here is a Suse user, but anyone with experience using Mandriva and their support?
From the business point of view, it is extremely convenient for Suse to keep this mailing list running as a primary support line for thousand of users. I don't think any other distro has such a rich resource as this list.
Anyone can feedback me about Mandrake support? I'm in the middle of "wait for version 10 to be released AND internationally shiped" or "just go ahead and get another user friendly distro". I get the feeling that NOT USING SUSE is to be walking by myself when needing some help.
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2005-Aug/2285.html FWIW, my most recent box purchase was SuSE, not Mandriva. -- "Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you." Psalm 55:22 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
Of course everyone here is a Suse user, but anyone with experience using Mandriva and their support?
From the business point of view, it is extremely convenient for Suse to keep this mailing list running as a primary support line for thousand of users. I don't think any other distro has such a rich resource as this list.
Anyone can feedback me about Mandrake support? I'm in the middle of "wait for version 10 to be released AND internationally shiped" or "just go ahead and get another user friendly distro". I get the feeling that NOT USING SUSE is to be walking by myself when needing some help.
Any feedback?
mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd are not always done like it should as of the support, I don't know for box version, but many things are to be taken from a "mandriva club", quite expensive (more than $100 a year) jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
Ricardo Rodriguez wrote:
Of course everyone here is a Suse user, but anyone with experience using Mandriva and their support?
From the business point of view, it is extremely convenient for Suse to keep this mailing list running as a primary support line for thousand of users. I don't think any other distro has such a rich resource as this list.
Anyone can feedback me about Mandrake support? I'm in the middle of "wait for version 10 to be released AND internationally shiped" or "just go ahead and get another user friendly distro". I get the feeling that NOT USING SUSE is to be walking by myself when needing some help.
Any feedback?
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I've not looked too closely to see if there is a similar forum as I've subscribed to Mandriva Club (just a way of supporting them when they were in trouble), but there must be some such free support for people who download the distro when it goes public. As a club member, I don't buy the distro, I download the CD's, install and register it. There is mandrivaexpert (mandrakeexpert as was) available to club members which has been very helpful to me in the past, various experts will own the problem and try to resolve it for you. You can update the incident and close it once it's resolved, so it gives you a more personal feel that it's being worked on. There is paid for per incident support also available as with SuSE, but the free support is all I've ever needed - running 3x SuSE 9.3, 1x gentoo 2005.1 and 2x mandriva LE 2005 boxes. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:
mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd are not always done like it should
Mandrake 10.1 installation failed, and I never tried again. Just my 50 paise. -- (o- Penguin #395953 lives at http://samvit.org //\ subsisting on ancient Indian wisdom ... V_/_ and modern computing efficiency! :)
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:
mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd are not always done like it should
Mandrake 10.1 installation failed, and I never tried again. Just my 50 paise.
this happens also with suse :-( I didn't wan to say mandriva is not a good distro, but, for example, the _text mode_ (ncurse) equivallent of yast is nearly unusable, far from the graphical one. I use SUSE on server, through ssh and don't wan to bother with graphics. SUSE is very nice for that jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:29:05 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
Of course everyone here is a Suse user, but anyone with experience using Mandriva and their support?
From the business point of view, it is extremely convenient for Suse to keep this mailing list running as a primary support line for thousand of users. I don't think any other distro has such a rich resource as this list.
Anyone can feedback me about Mandrake support? I'm in the middle of "wait for version 10 to be released AND internationally shiped" or "just go ahead and get another user friendly distro". I get the feeling that NOT USING SUSE is to be walking by myself when needing some help.
Any feedback?
FWIW, I came to SuSE from Mandrake. Their 'club' should be used to beat the Mandrake execs with. Support? What support? I don't expect things have changed that much. Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.
On 9/27/05 3:13 PM, "Michael W Cocke"
FWIW, I came to SuSE from Mandrake. Their 'club' should be used to beat the Mandrake execs with. Support? What support? I don't expect things have changed that much.
Mike-
-- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. --
Were you using mandrake for a desktop or server? I guess it would matter for ease of use. (OK, maybe not for support...) Just wondering... -- Thanks, George "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -Abraham Lincoln
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:37:46 -0400, you wrote:
On 9/27/05 3:13 PM, "Michael W Cocke"
wrote: FWIW, I came to SuSE from Mandrake. Their 'club' should be used to beat the Mandrake execs with. Support? What support? I don't expect things have changed that much.
Mike-
-- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. --
Were you using mandrake for a desktop or server? I guess it would matter for ease of use. (OK, maybe not for support...)
Just wondering...
Desktop. I figured if I couldn't make that work it was a bad idea to use it for a server.... Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.
jdd sur free wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:
mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd are not always done like it should
Mandrake 10.1 installation failed, and I never tried again. Just my 50 paise.
this happens also with suse :-(
I didn't wan to say mandriva is not a good distro, but, for example, the _text mode_ (ncurse) equivallent of yast is nearly unusable, far from the graphical one.
I use SUSE on server, through ssh and don't wan to bother with graphics. SUSE is very nice for that
jdd
I use both Mandriva and SuSE heavily. 98% of my time at this SuSE box, but using ssh, a fair bit of the time on the 2 Mandriva boxes, especially on the one where I have my DVB-T card and SCSI disks. I use the latest kernel.org kernels, NVidia drivers and the latest software I download. SuSE, Mandriva, gentoo, they're all working fine with everything I throw at them. If one box goes down with a hardware problem, it's mainly been this SuSE box with memory and motherboard problems, I can easily do all the stuff like skype, hamradio VOIP, Flightgear flightsim, move my USB devices over and carry on with whatever I need to do on the Mandriva box. I can honestly say I have no issues with any of them. If they were deficient, they wouldn't attract the number of happy users they do. Someone would have to quantify "not as clean" for me as I'm probably missing something. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:14:48PM +0200, jdd sur free wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:
mandrake is, on my opinion, not as "clean" as suse. thingd are not always done like it should
Mandrake 10.1 installation failed, and I never tried again. Just my 50 paise.
this happens also with suse :-(
I didn't wan to say mandriva is not a good distro, but, for example, the _text mode_ (ncurse) equivallent of yast is nearly unusable, far from the graphical one.
How so? Are you talking about MCC or YAST here? Yast, both text and GUI are useable.
I use SUSE on server, through ssh and don't wan to bother with graphics. SUSE is very nice for that
jdd
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On 9/27/05 4:55 PM, "Michael W Cocke"
Desktop. I figured if I couldn't make that work it was a bad idea to use it for a server....
Mike-
I've found the opposite to be true- I can get the server apps I want going much easier than all the desktop crap. The last time I did a install of Mandrake was (don't laugh) back in version 7.1. It ran good for years...I never upgraded for the reason "just to upgrade". I figured, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." I then went to OSX and all hell broke loose. :| -- Thanks, George "...Linux, MS-DOS, and Windows XP" (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)
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