On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:06:08AM -0700, Prashanth KS wrote: > [snipped] > > I want to know this, which of these two distro's are better > Mandrake 8.2 or Slackware 8.0 or do I wait for the 9.0 ver- > sions of both which are supposed to be out shortly. > [snipped] > ---end quoted text---
This seems to be a flame-bait. It is totally a matter of per- sonal opinion.In terms of ease of installation, customisation and general appeal, the rpm based distros are better off. It is difficult to choose between RH, SuSE and MDK. It is just a matter of personal preference and what you are used to. These are constantly on a warpath for the latest-and-greatest, and at times some critical components are flaky ! This applies to them all. Slack is the most stable of them all, but needs a lot of per- sonal effort for admining, and has the least amount of distro customisation ... has the highest learning value. If you are the "compile-from-developer-tarball" type, and would like to do things properly on your own ... look no further ... Debian occupies a unique place in between, perhaps a bit too rigid in its policies, and slightly slow in updates being a totally voluntary effort ... but good and stable. Perhaps biased towards Slack, being on it since Ver 1 .. but the final choice is yours. Just my 2p Bish -- : ####[ GNU/Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]####################### Sub : Killing a Process (#2) LOST #080 At times 'kill <process-no>' fails, in which case, forcefully kill it with 'kill -9 <process-no>' ... WARNING: This method does not give the process any chance to quit normally, and in apps like netscape may lose contents of bookmarks and address book entries. The <process-no> is identified with ps command. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>####################################### : ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
