On Monday 22 January 2001 12:53, you wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am getting back into the Linux world after 5 years. We're a huge NT shop
> and I now need to get some stability in here! I've researched the current
> distributions and have decided to go with Mandrake. I started my Linux
> days using the Slackware release and it appears a lot has changed in 5
> years! I'd like to here from some of you to make sure I have made the right
> decision and to find out about any "Gotchas"!
>
>
> Where are all of the latest HOW-To's etc..?? I hope to be a regular
> contributor soon.
>
HOWTOs are on your installation diskettes and on www.linuxdoc.org
Manuals are on the menu for any non-server installation.
/usr/share/doc has a little additional information
www.mandrakeuser.org has tips and tricks
www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72last.php3 has some dodges for the odd hardware
configurations
www.linux/mandrake.com (Demos) has some nice tutorials and a few fixes.
www.mandrakeforum.com has discussions and sometimes detail on warps, tips,
and tricks as technical articles.
This mailing list and the expert mailing list are both archived and the
archive has a nice search engine. Links to the archives are at
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/flists.php3
You will probably want to take a machine where you have done a workstation or
development install and familiarize yourseld with webmin by opening konqueror
or netscape and using this URL
https://127.0.0.1:10000
login as root with the root password and browse what you can do.
There is corporate server 1.0.1 which has a collection of very stable
packages and is updated on a schedule suitable for servers. Then there is
the regular distro which always has some very new stuff and seems to be
produced about 2.7 times per year. Finally there is cooker--the open
development process--which has the most bleeding-edge things available. At
present, new compilers, rpm versions, and libraries have made cooker not
forward compatible with 7.2 though cooker is backwards compatible to 7.2
applications. /Mandrake-devel/unsupported contains quite a few rpms of the
newest packages compatible with 7.2, including KDE 2.1 Beta. User-made
packages are at places announced on www.mandrakeforum.com.
Welcome to the community.
Civileme
> Thanks,
> Jim
