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! :)

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Shriramana Sharma wrote:

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Tuesday 27 Sep 2005 21:40 samaye jdd sur free alekhiit:

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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 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... -- 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 9/27/05 4:55 PM, "Michael W Cocke" wrote:

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)