--- Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> distros against
> Mandrake,and while nobody really consider Corel a competition (the
> future may prove me wrong ,altough it will take them at least 2-3
> more
> releases if they got them right which is unlikely) there is Progeny
> Linux coming with a lot of hard-backing and a lot of marketing
> noise .
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As soon as I hear rants about this or that distro being "moronized"
or "deviant" in any way, my curiosity meter goes berserk. So, I
looked at Corel. From the endpoint of view - very elegant for its
time as far as an end user is concerned. I set one box up inside a
secured LAN as a SAMBA machine, and it took me a few minutes.
Mandrake is looking great, but don't ask too much from it- it may
prove it's a CrashDrake. Besides it's not that RedHat compliant as
they claim.
Installationwise they are, but administration is way too different at
times. But it's nice to have on your desktop to show to a Windows
soul that machine running Real Audio Player while burning a CD with a
cute girl on the desktop background :-)
an example of differences in administration, simple set-up of a
hostname:
RHAT and Mandrake use the same file /etc/sysconfig/network but
entries inside are different in terms of syntax - actually, Mandrake
demands 2 lines, whilst RHAT is happy with only one line entry
Caldera uses /etc/HOSTNAME
Corel: /etc/hostname
Slack: /etc/HOSTNAME
TurboLinux: etc/HOSTNAME
SuSE: /etc/HOSTNAME
you can easily see the convention to use caps for files and smalls
for directories by majority
entries in Corel, Slack and Turbo have the same syntax, Caldera's
identical, but different filename (from Corel - caps), SuSE stands
out with a different entry syntax. Nothing deadly, but could make
your head spinning and steal a lot of time in a production
environment, that's why RHAT is preferred by suits, coz admins tell
them that it has the most widely disseminated info on all wrongs. I
haven't worked with some of the latest releases, so correct me , if I
am wrong.
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