On 2003-09-26, Ian Mortimer wrote:
> 
> I have to admit that my only experience with Mandrake is cleaning
> up the mess after staff or students attempt to install it themselves.
> 
And when they try Gentoo, Debian or even worse; *BSD's or MS OS's...

> My impression is that Mandrake is a desktop oriented distribution that 
> likes to stay close to the bleeding edge and is not primarily targeted 
> at the server market.  (But I could be wrong).
> 
It is in fact a very popular server OS, home users, small corporations
and large intranets alike. If you've ever installed a Mandrake OS you
would know why.

> The linux distributions I've mostly seen on servers are RedHat, SuSe
> and Debian.   (Debian seems to be especially popular with ISPs).
> 
> FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also popular.
Slackware and Mandrake are too. 

Cheers,
Helgi Örn

-- 
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.


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