George Stoianov wrote:
Hi guys,
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 read some reviews/comparisons for some background more links are welcome too :).
Your thoughts are well appreciated. Thanks. george
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Using SuSE 9.2 x86 and x86_64, Mandrake 10.1 Offical x86 and gentoo 2005-0 x86. Apart from the tools being different, they are pretty much on par, they both use RPM. The only thing is that there isn't an official build of kde-3.4.0 available for Mandrake, but there is a version built by another guy. All the usual things that run on SuSE, run on Mandrake. I use it for skype when this SuSE box isn't available, kernel.org kernels run and it's the box I have my Hauppauge Nova-T DVB-T card working in, DVD/CD playing, Hamradio stuff. What else can I tell you --- if I didn't have SuSE, I'd be happily running on Mandrake or gentoo for everything, as it is I use them all happily with bleeding edge kernels. If someone said he was going to install Mandrake, I'd say go for it without a second thought. 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