On Sunday 17 February 2002 01:03 pm, Joshua Lee wrote:
On Sunday 17 February 2002 11:36 am, you wrote:
Any thoughts on how they compare?
Mandrake is unstable, but on the other hand it has more GUI configuration tools. (Though SuSE's YAST2 GUI configurer is very good.) SuSE seems to be very cutting edge too yet careful to have stability in their finished product. Mandrake has ISOs, not to ressurect that thread, while SuSE's shrinkwrapped boxes have reportedly the best manuals of any distribution,
In a previous life I used Mandrake 7.0 and switched to SuSE 7.2pro on the reputation of there manuals. I've often gone back to the Mandrake Manuals for things I couldn't find in the SuSE books. (Both sets of manuals are helpful, both have weaknesses).
and you know your money is going to an excellent team of programmers who have written such things as the 2.4.10 and later VM and much of KDE. What distro you pick depends upon what you're looking for.
My experience was that I had better luck w/ Gnome on Mandrake than on SuSE. Out of The box SuSE Gnome worked fine but the upgrades on the SuSE servers always seem to break some gnome app or other (right now I think niether gnumeric nor gnucash work on my system). I'm pretty happy w/ KDE so I can live w/ that. good day dh