I've been on this list a fairly long time in 'newbie' years, a little over a year at this point!
I started out with Mandrake 7.2 and progressed to 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. However, for the last several months I have not been using Mandrake. Instead, I've been doing a 'distro a week', installing Red Hat 7.2, 7.3 (the 'official' system at work), and Red Hat 8.0 on a number of boxes. My main computer at home runs Gentoo and I have another running a new install of Libranet (Debian based). I've remianed subscribed to this list because there is useful advice, good tips, and because a lot of folks on the list are awesome in their knowledge! Before I rattle on too long...I installed Mandrake 9.0 on this box last night. I'm very impressed. My logitech webacm was immedidately detected and xawtv installed (no other distro did that). My HP500PSC printer/copier/scanner was detected as an Office Jet R40 (which usually happens and works fairly well as a CUPS printer) *but* Mandrake knew it had a scanner built in and installed a xsane backend. I can scan with Kooka! This is the first time I ever got the scanner to actually work Mandrake installed the arts soundserver which is much better quality than the alsa sound server I had been using. The menu structure is much more intuitive and easy to use than the mess Red Hat makes out of menus. In fact, I have given up on RH 8.0's Bluecurve look altogether. It's too 'dummied down' to allow easy access to the apps I'm used to and totally fouls up the desktop when I switch back and forth between KDE or Gnome in Gentoo versus KDE or Gnome in Red Hat where both distros use a shared /home directory. The MCC is a marvel.. I could go on, but I'm super impressed and can't believe I wanderred away from Mandrake for so long. Kudos to Mandrake. Terry Smith Cape Cod USA
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