Quoting Bryan Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I like Mandrake. They have put a lot of work into making it easy to > use, there are a lot of packages available and they have a nice utility > for downloading and installing rpms called urpmi. It has a nice gui > frontend too, if you like. They have the mandrake control center that > makes it very easy to install printers, change your monitor resolution, > configure your firewall, set up "internet connection sharing" (making > your box into a router), etc. I've been able to get more done with > linux using Mandrake than I ever was able to with RedHat. It's not that > redhat doesn't have the capabilities, it's jut that Mandrake makes it > easier to get at those capabilites, and then you can still dig deeper > and get into tweaking configuration files or firewall rules or whatever > it might be later.
I'll echo what Bryan said. I've used both Red Hat and Mandrake and for easy of use, Mandrake wins hands down. Also, if you're into using KDE as an interface, if you happened to like it in Red Hat, you'll LOVE it in Mandrake. I'll save my Red Hat killing KDE rant, but from what I have seen, Mandrake makes KDE much easier to use with things like the menu for example. > Cons? As a company Mandrake seems to be in some financial trouble. > What does that mean for the future of Mandrake? Who knows, but for now > they have a very nice distribution that is progressing rapidly. If they > die, it's not like you will be left up a creek with a bunch of files in > their proprietary format, or you'll have to go learn a whole new > operating system or something. Some Linux distro will still be out > there for you to use. Debian will still be chugging along, right? :) Yes, the financial trouble seems to be Mandrake's middle name. But notice how they have held true to free (as in freedom) software and not sued IBM (*cough* Evan *cough*) ;) If you try and like Mandrake and want to help support them, I suggest thinking about joining the Mandrake club. There are many advantages to doing so, and if I had some extra money I'd do it myself. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
