Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Linux == Learning
Well, I'll chime in on learning:
Mandrake 7.0 (air) on 486, decent install -- much manual updating [major
learning - but at least you learned where all the text config files were and
what they do, 1st Linux install]
Mandrake 7.2 (odyssey) Golden -- best release known to mankind (still
running production server - hell click on the signature url and your there)
Mandrake 8.0 -- Hmm.. something is amiss
Mandrake 8.1 -- middle of the road gcc 2.96 - 3.0x transition -- something
still amiss
Mandrake 8.2 -- better, but something still amiss
Mandrake 9.0 -- (mdk goes public -- Stock offering -- marketing v.
engineering driving releases -- major problems)
Mandrake 9.1 -- (Still suffering from "hurry up and get release number
"next" out for $ regardless of whether it is ready)
Mandrake 9.2 -- Released and then ~ 200 MB of patches released w/i a week --
never installed, Gave up on mdk, bought Suse 8.2 pro.
Suse 8.2 -- Awesome (very painful to transition from mdk to SuSE, but worth
the struggle, splitting smb/nmb (now that was a nice touch), stuff in weird
places, chroot everything, Bind9 [major learning], but everything worked
great!)
Suse 9.0 -- Awesome (price (time, etc.) already paid to learn 8.2, 9.0 was a
sinch -- well except for bind and dhcpd ddns, and those nasty little postfix
config gotchas on receiving mail [procmail should be default])
Suse 9.1 -- waiting -- monitoring list -- hoping that kernel 2.6.(whatever #
we are on settles down)
Suse 9.2 -- Will be my next production machine -- I have great confidence in
you guys, keep up the great work ! SuSE is a wonderful distro. Please don't
fall into the same trap as mdk, history is a great teacher if we are only
willing to listen ; - )
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl William Spitzer IV"
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 04:18, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
OTH, those kids were almost born inside a computer ( back when you actually could wander thru it... and the "print outs: were poleroids!) So they aren't afraid of breaking anything... That has been My biggest difficulty w/ folks who want to try but are afraid they "will do something wrong"... silly, that's how we all learned, at least most of us that can read... screw something up and go read the manual to fixor it... duh!
-- j --
I was told to expect to blow up 8 installs as the price for learning. I did that with one weekend with 8.0 a friend gave me. Went and got 8.2 when it came out and no problems.
I am not sure where the 8 figure came from I was told its a magic number or some such flubber. Any way Linux is the OS for those willing to pay dues. It does seem strange that the personal is so much more reported troubles. I have use pro since 7.0 and its only gotten better as time went along. Even with help that first one blew up three times in one weekend and took 9 hours on a PI 233 with 64mb and a 2 speed cdrom. but it ran.
The PIII 533 with 512mb with a 40x12x48 liteon took a little over an hour with 9.1 plus YOU after. Likely the PII will take a little longer.
Linux == Learning
Thankfully we have this list and I have a local group for help.
I posted a URL for the international listing. If you need help please look for it.
CWSIV
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