On Saturday 10 July 2004 02:20 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: > hello, > i've been a pretty devout redhat user since around 2000. that being > said, i'm thinking of switching over to mandrake 10.0 because of a > couple reasons: > > 1) i'm a huge KDE fan and that is default desktop on mandrake (as > opposed to fedora core's gnome) > 2) fedora core 2 seems to have been getting tons of complaints lately > > now i have a few questions/concerns before switching over: > > 1) typically, i do a pretty minimal linux install + dev tools and i > install all my program from source. i like to have my stuff pretty up > to date. if i'm in a bind for time, i sometimes download an rpm and > manually install it. i'm older now and more busy, i don't really have > the time to compile everything from source (else i would use gentoo i > guess)...;) i never learned how to use yum or anything like that but i > think if i do a fresh install of some linux distro i'd like to learn a > tool like that. does mandrake have anything like yum? what is package > management like and where can i learn more about it? urpmi learn about it at http://www.urpmi.org/ very easy setup at http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/
> > 2) related to #1 above, i noticed that mandrake 10.0 comes with > kde-3.2. the latest version of kde is 3.2.3. is there any "easy" way > to upgrade? > > 3) there is some issue about the new kernel and dual booting with winxp > (i've read about it on the fedora mailing list). does mandrake have a > similar problem? it would seem like the answer is yes, since its a 2.6 > kernel problem. > > 4) i'm tired of manual configuring things with vim...;) since mandrake > is suppose to be the leader in "linux desktop computing", i'm hoping > that there are gui configuration tools for pretty much >everything<. is > this true? > > thats all i can think of now. i guess my main reason for switching is > KDE and i'm guessing that all of mandrakes configuration tools use the > KDE (or QT) libraries. > > what do you all think? > > thanks for the insights and advice!
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