Re: [SLE] Mandrake 8.1 vs. SuSE
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:36:52 -0500, geno
wrote: Any thoughts on how they compare?
Thanks.
geno
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SuSE dominates over mandrake
no for real though. Everything you can do in one distro, you can do in another. Its just they all go about it in their own little way. It's actually the end users preffrence as to wich one he/she likes better. So what ever one is better is really left for the end users opinion.
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oh, ant let me add this I AM NOT ACCUSING YOU OF DOING THIS OR ANY ONE ON THIS LIST OF DOING IT i'm just seeing alot of this going around. If you do decide, that in your mind, mandrake is better then suse or vise versa. Thats great i'm happy for ya. At least your using linux. I may not think mandrake is the best distro out there, but that my personal opinion. I keep encountering other users that use a diffrent distro then me and when asked what I run I tell them SuSE, and then I am attack with comments like "baah, SuSE is shit." or "SuSE is full of security holes, use this distro or that distro." Or my integridy as a linux use is attacked. Please dont do this and dont lower your self to this level. This kinda behavior is not acceptible for any OS. There shouldnt be a conflict between the distro's. All distros are virtully the same. And it really is the end users opinion as to what distro is better, they are all good, they all run the same software, they all run on the same platforms, and they are all very well made. There is no reason to attack a user whom uses another distro. Just be happy for them, and if they attack you with cruel comments, please realalize that their IQ is most likely no bigger then their shoe size and they are so narrow minded that they can look through a key hole. Just thought I would get that out there because the question has arised which is better.
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:36:52 -0500, geno
Any thoughts on how they compare? Thanks.
As far as my experience goes, I liked Mandrake better than SUSE, up until around Mandrake's 7.x vers. With Mandrake's departure from standard libraries naming (mdk versions now), as well as some recent failures on properly installing on two models of laptops and two or three different custom-built desktops I have, where SUSE 7.2 and 7.3 performed flawlessly, I am tempted to say that SUSE is a much better distro for what it could do out of the box, as well as in regards to behaviour with tar-ball-ed packages. Again - one of the main problems I had with recent Mandrake versions was the need for installing - sometimes - almost similar libraries to its own, just because some packages I would experiment with, won't easily find what they need, or compile. And rather than changing configuration files all over, for what looks to me proprietary cooker format (at least naming), I would rather prefer SUSE. Another issue I saw in the recent Mandrake vers is their attempt to control one bit too much the installation options ... where YAST(2) would be much more "open". Just my $0.02, Stef
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