On Tuesday 26 September 2006 06:35, Geoffrey wrote:
Seriously looking at Mandriva, and that is not a troll. I've been a faithful user of SuSE since at least 6.4 and have it installed at clients as well as my own systems here. I've never spent this much time trying to get an install to work and I've got experience with other distros (Red Hat, Mandriva) I'm not as green as all these posts might sound. I've got RHWS 4, SuSE 10.0 dual boot laptop. Another laptop with Fedora Core, SuSE 9.3, Solaris multiboot. Running a dual head SuSE 10.0 on my primary box with E17 window manager.
So what would you learn with Mandriva that you don't already know with red hat? Go try Ubuntu (or Kubuntu if you like kde). Installed it on a new Dell laptop for a friend. EVERYTHING worked. Hard to get used to that no-root-login stuff, but all else is cool. Seriously, if you have a machine between installs, sic your torrent client on the dvd and give it a try while you wait for 10.2. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen