-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 20 August 2001 06:31, Adrian Lynch gave up his right to remain silent by saying: > I'm new to Linux but I'm ready to make the giant leap forward and chop my > HD up to make room for Linux. My question is, I've used Mandrake, 7.2 I > think, and I would like to know if this is known to be easy to use. I liked > what I saw, but does anyone have a better suggestion. I liked the > installation process, nice and easy. Is there any reasons to choose this > over Corel, Red Hat ect.... Thanks, and go easy on me, it's my first post > :o) I qualify as an almost rank newbie. I've been a recovering Windoze-holic for almost two weeks now. I had installed but only sparingly used Mandrake 7.0 a year ago. I had tried and failed to install Mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 (display problems mostly), plus another local (Denver, Colorado) release based on Red Hat. Now I'm on Mandrake 8.0 8.0 proved to be the easiest install, with the most built in functionality. 7.0 didn't have Star Office and kmail, istr. With 8.0, I've had to do very little searching out of feral rpm's to install - almost everything that I really need came with the original package. That convenience was a major plus, and let me drop windows as soon as I was satisfied that I had my basic system working. Part of this may be my own improved ability to find sources of support that I didn't know about a year ago, too. Both the newbies list and a similar local list have proven useful, as has usenet. You definitely want to seek out your local LUG as well though - they tend to provide solid knowledge and assistance. Since you're in London, check out http://gllug.linux.co.uk/ I'm taking my machine to a local install fest in a couple of weeks (CLUE - Sept 15, if any Denver locals are reading this) to resolve a couple of low priority configuration issues. - -- "One Code to rule them all, one Code to bind them In the land of Redmond where the Shadows lie" - Joe Thomson, ASR. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO4ES0H+bkeP849+WEQJlggCaA/6NxtwdXcman5IRMVCpbPYhvxoAnAvZ 3CTJUQQHVIdvQT3kE8oSbUr7 =2kYR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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