I've recently tried Mandrake 9.1 - installed like a dream. No serious bugs
yet. The KDE setup is very different from eD2.4 (my previous distro),
especially if you try tweaking some of the preferences. I'd definitely
give it a thumbs up overall.
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 10/17/2003 02:20:23 PM:
> Hi,
> I'm installing Linux on a laptop for a friend - P4 1.8, 256 MB DDR,
> Radeon 7500, it's really a pretty nice laptop.
> Redhat hates it, it hates Redhat (countless bugs, sound-related,
> scanning-related, PPP related, etc. both in 9.0 and I even tried the
> latest Severn and I don't feel like squashing them). It did work just
> fine when I installed it on his desktop... but oh well.
> Gentoo takes way too long (he needs it by the end of next week, max, and
> what with package downloads on dialup.. yeah right) and he's pretty much
> computer illiterate.
> Mandrake just seems too Redhat-like for me, plus I'm getting unstability
> reports, but I'm willing to give it a try.
> Debian... I'm also willing to try it... but I just have a bad taste in
> my mouth after the last time I tried it (though that was several years
> ago- I just hated having to wait for up to date versions to make it into
> stable, which I'm definitely going to be using on someone else's
machine).
> SuSE I'd rather not pay for, and neither would he.
> Slackware looks like my best option right now... as I've got the
> Slackware LiveCD loaded on there right now, and it's really fast and
> really nice looking (it's actually faster than Redhat was running off
> the disk).
> Any reason why I shouldn't use slackware or I should use one of the
> others I've listed (or ones I've forgotten to list?) Ease of use after
> installation, lack of show-stopping bugs (i.e. no workarounds just to
> get on the web to get mail- we had that with Redhat on the laptop), and
> fast setup are of main importance (oh yeah.. free as well).
> Thanks!
> Bob Raymond
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