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