I agree. Mandrake seems to very good at detection. In fact I am so
confident with it, the last couple of installs on some new machines I
did not even bother to note down the hardware details at all. Just let
the Mandrake installer do its stuff.
Really neat with Mandrake 7 is DiskDrake and the X configuration. The
very first time, I could configure 1024x768 at install time, without
having to meddle with xf86config files and it neatly rebooted after
install into the configured X installation. I was impressed.
-- Aravind
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> Sent: Monday, 14 February 2000 11:19
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SLUG] Linux as a Desktop
>
>
> Redhat install is indeed not friendly.
>
> Mandrake on the other hand is, it autodetected my sound
> card (sblive),
> network card
> etherexpress pro, mouse and so on.
>
> It even went and downloaded the high security encryption
> from a non-us site
> for me.
>
> It really could not have been easier.
>
> It can be done, redhat really just needs to lift its game.
>
> tim
>
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