Re: [newbie] 5 Stars to Mandrake!

2002-11-28 Thread Terry Smith
I'm on the same page as you and Derek. We use RH 7.3 at work (on the few workstations that run Linux, most run Windows) 'cuz that's what is officially supported (although we are slowly migrating our servers over to Linux..from Sun...we have about 300 users..in a heavy computing research setting).

Re: [newbie] 5 Stars to Mandrake!

2002-11-28 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 12:31, Derek Jennings wrote: > I totally agree Terry. > After having used Mandrake for 18 months I thought had better check on other > distros, just in case I was being blind to their merits. Red Hat 8 's > install went very nicely, and the fonts were great, but when I tri

Re: [newbie] 5 Stars to Mandrake!

2002-11-28 Thread Derek Jennings
I totally agree Terry. After having used Mandrake for 18 months I thought had better check on other distros, just in case I was being blind to their merits. Red Hat 8 's install went very nicely, and the fonts were great, but when I tried to actually 'do things' in it I found I missed all the

[newbie] 5 Stars to Mandrake!

2002-11-28 Thread Terry Smith
I've been on this list a fairly long time in 'newbie' years, a little over a year at this point! I started out with Mandrake 7.2 and progressed to 8.0, 8.1 and 8.2. However, for the last several months I have not been using Mandrake. Instead, I've been doing a 'distro a week', installing Red Hat