[aclug-L] Re: SuSE vs. Mandrake

[Anne McCadden <ironrose@xxxxxxx>]

I always had problems with getting Mandrake installed when I first
started using linux and so I switched to RedHat when 5.2 came out. 
Aparently Mandrake didn't like the hardware that I had in the computer
and RedHat didn't have a problem with my hardware.  I could also find
more books to read about RedHat linux.  I recently switched to SuSE when
I had problems getting RedHat updates on multiple machines.  SuSE
doesn't give me any hassles with updates and I like the way that SuSE
looks and works.  I just wish that I knew how to get my seti script in
runlevel 3 on SuSE.  Jeff Vian knows how to get the script to work on
RedHat, but not on SuSE. Because of the RedHat update problems, I am in
the process of switching all of my linux boxes to SuSE.  I just upgraded
one of the computers today and in the process of the upgrade, I removed
RedHat and installed SuSE.  Since I am not doing any windoze tech
support any longer, then I am thinking about removing XP and installing
SuSE on that box also.  That would make 8 linux boxes and one Win2k box
in my office.

I have a friend who likes Mandrake and she is always trying to get me to
switch to Mandrake so that I can help her learn all the ins and outs of
linux.  I wish that I knew all the ins and outs also.  I'm working on
it.  ~Anne

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 23:12, Dustin Keib wrote:
> Anne
> 
> At the meeting last night, we were discussing SuSE and Mandrake, and you said 
> that you preferred SuSE over Mandrake.  Can you give me a few of the reasons 
> you have for this?  I know it is RPM based, but does it have anything similar 
> to urpmi or apt-get for installing software directly off the internet?  
> (Ports packages like BSD or any non-distro-included software)  Can you 
> compare the layout of the GUI (I assume KDE is the default desktop) and 
> usablity factors?  Is there anything broken in the default install (like 
> Mandrake and RedHat seem to always be) <- go ahead guys, flame away...  
> Anything else you think I should know before I trash my beloved Mandrake 9.1 
> install?  
> 
> Thanks
> Dustin
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