Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-17 Thread erylon hines
On Friday 17 January 2003 02:42 am, you wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Friday 17 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Les Henderson wrote: > >>I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros > > > >For me, a straightforward install that recognised all the hardware I need > > on a regular bas

Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 17 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Les Henderson wrote: I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros For me, a straightforward install that recognised all the hardware I need on a regular basis (despite problems with camera and smartmedia reader

Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 17 Jan 2003 2:19 am, Les Henderson wrote: > I'm curious as to why someone would choose mandrake over other distros For me, a straightforward install that recognised all the hardware I need on a regular basis (despite problems with camera and smartmedia reader), and, above all, this li

Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-16 Thread Aaron Mehl
Hi my 2 cents I started out with Redhat 6 at work and upgraded to 6.2 At home I kept upgrading Redhat until the 7 series when I tried debian, a distro which looked amazing but which required to much time to install. I then tried SuSe but just plain didn't like it. The gui, the installation, I neve

Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 16 January 2003 06:02 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > btw, i'm looking for actual comparisions about what are the features that > > you like about it, not just flat out oppinions that mandrake rocks. i > > hope that this isn't too off topic. > > Well, first of all, Mandrake 7.1 was my f

Re: [newbie] [OT] why mandrake?

2003-01-16 Thread Damian Gatabria
> > btw, i'm looking for actual comparisions about what are the features that > you like about it, not just flat out oppinions that mandrake rocks. i > hope that this isn't too off topic. Well, first of all, Mandrake 7.1 was my first Linux download. Besides that, i had three other discs (obtaine