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From: unclerichard68 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 9:29:36 PM
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Installing on Mandriva
--- In LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com, "Zachariah Peebles"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] .> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I decided after 2008, I will use Mandriva after Using Windows. Yet, I
> don't know what to do with installation. So I came to this group for
help.
>
Many moons ago I ran Mandrake 9 on one of my boxes and liked and used
it extensively. Recently I tried Mandriva and was very disappointed by
its performance. If anything, it appears to have gone backwards sine I
last used it.
I have tried some ten distros over the past three years and have come
to the conclusion that at present Ubuntu (and its derivatives) and
Suse (10.3 not 10.2) are the best performers. Ubuntu installation is
now good and its update and package management excellent. Suse, has
CRN (so does Ubuntu I believe, but where?) and its configuration is
better than Ubuntu (though Kubuntu is almost as good). Fedora seemed
to bleeding edge for my boxes.
I run both Vista and Ubuntu on my main box and XP and Kubuntu on the
other. I find there are still programs and functions only Windows can
offer, but for most of the mundane things Ubuntu is just as effective.
I think it will be some time before I am prepared to go Linux solo, it
seems to me that Windows is overpriced, and Linux over hyped.
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CNR is available for Ubuntu. To get it you need to be using 7.10 or 7.04. You
download the CNR client as a .deb file and install it. You need to open a free
account to download the client and use CNR.
Once the client is installed you browse through the repositories online at
CNR.com. when you click on a .cnr file it opens the installed client and
installs the application. I used it a bit, however not all CNR files work with
Ubuntu because they were modified to work with Linspire or Freespire. It
detects whether the file is already on your system from Synaptic or Adept. A
problem with CNR is that it isn't password protected except through the CNR
account itself.
Another option for Debian or Ubuntu users is Automatix which uses a similar
approach. It gives you a menu list and you click and install.
You can also install from Klik or Autopackage. And for Debian or Ubuntu users
there is Getdeb.
Linux is all about choice. Not all choice is good but it is for the user to
decide what works best for them.
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