Felix Miata wrote:
George Stoianov wrote:
Does anyone have any experience or advice about Mandrake? Any comparison comments.
SuSE is the first Linux distro that I had working and is my favorite one but I would like to try something else as well. I have struggled with Debian install and have installed successfully Ubuntu but it did not compare to SuSE everything is so much easier to set up on SuSE.
Mandrake seems to be a good competitor and maybe worth a test.
I have several versions of SuSE & Mandrake installed, plus Fedora & Xandros. SuSE to me is most polished, less buggy at release, but the Mandrake support community seems better, meaning if you have a problem with Mandrake, you're more likely to get helpful and/or quick support, while with SuSE, you're less likely to need help in the first place. Xandros is more tightly aimed at windoze converts, and comes with less software and more of a windoze look and feel.
I do a lot of messing with new kernel.org kernels and other stuff on both Mandrake and SuSE, building the latest stuff from sources and using checkinstall. I only ever had one problem with Mandrake which I fixed myself, it was after a motherboard change and networking got partially screwed where normal internet access worked, but Mandrake online updates couldn't contact the mirrors - problem in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ didn't match the new hardware. May be I'm lucky, but both run pretty trouble-free even with constant abuse I subject them to. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks