I have installed Mandrake 8.0 on a couple of machines. The good news is it
installs very easily, even on pretty new hardware. I like the compatibility
with RH RPMs so most software is available for it. I have had good luck
getting CDRW to work and some difficulity getting DVD to work but that may be
a problem with the drivers for my video card. btw...the cdrecord version
that comes with the install needed to be updated from rpmfind.net before I
could get the CDRW to actually burn cds.
The bad news....I have had trouble loading Star Office 5.2 and WordPerfect 8.
I have also had some issues with the flip/flop from lilo to grub and back to
lilo as the default loader from earlier versions of Mandrake. I like grub
and MDL 8.0 uses lilo. I find the printer system (CUPS) does not seem to
work as well as what I was used to with Caldera. It drives my HP855C pretty
slowly. The print quality is good but very slow. Also, I find print queue
management not to work as well as Caldera. If you want to kill a print job,
it is not as responsive.
The ugly fonts problem is there in spades in KDE, Konqurer, other stuff and I
have not yet found a good solution even following all the HOW-TO and other
hints.
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On Saturday 07 July 2001 07:52 am, you wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm using a Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 system now. I never
> bothered to upgrade to 2.4 (deciding instead to
> wait for the next generation Caldera distribution
> which would have the latest kernel, KDE desktop,
> etc...). I've heard mixed reviews about the new 3.1
> product and am finding my present system is getting
> dated, so I'm considering other distributions.
>
> I'd like to get a distribution that has all of the
> productivity/internet desktop stuff set up already so
> that I can immediately get productive without spending
> hours downloading things, installing them, and getting
>
> them to work. In particular, I need a good browser
> with JAVA support, 128-bit encryption, Adobe
> Acrobat, various plug-ins ,etc... ****already set
> up**** so that I can immediately do just about
> anything
> on the internet that I can currently do from IE in the
> Windows world. Although I'm a newbie currently
> playing with Linux as a home desktop system, I see
> myself eventually setting up my old P166 as a
> file/print server for the household. It would also
> host a relational database (such as MySQL ) . As a
> developer, I'm also interested in the development
> tools.
>
> I've looked at the websites for various distributions
> and the two new ones that have caught my eye are
> Suse 7.2 and Mandrake 8.0. I've seen some positive
> first impressions of Suse posted on mail lists, but am
> also looking at Mandrake because of its reputation as
> having very intuitive/easy install, admin tools,
> etc... Another issue might be availability of RPMs for
> new applications (are there more application RPMs
> developed for one distribution than for the other?)
>
> It occured to me that some of you out there may have
> had an opportunity to compare the two. Perhaps there
> are other factors I should be considering. Would
> anyone out there care to share their
> opinions/experiences?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mel
>
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