I had ordered the Linux MegaPack from LinuxMall last year (its was 6
different linux distro's at the time - did not include Mandrake). I
actually tried them all (reformatting galore!).
Anyway, my overall impression was that Slackware and Debian were a
little bit hard to configure at first. Basically, Slackware is
userfriendly to the kind of user that wants to configure with a text
editor. I haven't really done much with Debian, all though it did seem a
little confusing and difficult compared to the other ones.
RedHat 6.0 seems fairly good. I have also heard great things
about Mandrake but have not tried it yet. I did buy the full version of
Caldera because I heard it came with Partition Magic. I was kind of
disappointed that it seemed like all you can do with the Caldera version
of PM is create Linux partitions (not resize Windows partitions as I
hoped). But from my experience, Caldera seems about the easiest and comes
with the most programs (WordPerfect, StarOffice, and BRU).
> If anyone if looking for a good distribution to use at a LDD event, I
> would like to suggest Linux Mandrake 6.0 as one to consider.
>
> I ordered both Mandrake and Debian from CheapBytes last week. This means I
> did *not* get the full package of books and other support materials, but
> in the case of users inspired to try out Linux after seeing it demo'd,
> this is likely to be the case as well -- especially if they get a disc
> from the event.
>
> While my experience is certainly not the only valid one, I had trouble
> with Debian and never got it to install. I got through most of the
> install process (and found it well-designed and likeable), but when it
> tried to install the base system, I repeatedly got error messages
> (which I don't recall exactly right now, unfortunately). Whether I have a
> bad disc or was somehow mis-specifying my system config, or just doing
> something stupid, I don't know.
>
> Mandrake, on the other hand, went on without a hitch, and before I knew it
> I was staring at a graphical login screen, and then the KDE desktop.
> (Gnome is also included, but I haven't tried it out yet.)
>
> For those not familiar with the Mandrake distrib (is it known / popular in
> Europe or Asia?), it is based on Redhat, uses rpms, but tries to also add
> some bug fixes and updated software based on each major Redhat release.
>
> I'm not suggesting this is the *only* or *single-best* distrib. to demo,
> but I was impressed by its autodetection of my video card (ATI XPert@ Play
> 98) and ethernet card (Orchid), which Redhat 5.2 did not do. (I have not
> used the actual Redhat 6.0).
>
> Hope this is useful!
>
> timothy
>
> "Both ogliarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them
> of arms." --Aristotle [[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] / www.monkey.org/~timothy ]]
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