> I love Mandrake. It's a slick distro. I'm excited about their new > release coming out. It's a great distro for beginners and for > experienced hackers in my opinion. Anyhow, props to the Mandrake crew.
I'll agree that mdk is better for beginners, I even think it is the best. (Where best is defined as easiest, and most familiar like.) I will strongly disagree that mdk is good for experienced hackers. This is because of the lack of good pkg mgmt. For that reason distros like Gentoo, *BSD, and Debian are better distros for hackers. It is far easier to install and tweak things with those distros i just mentioned, and that is what hackers do best. BTW, I did use mdk for a little over two years, then went to gentoo, so you can't say I haven't tried it. Anyway, I liked it, the install was a piece of cake, but pkg mgmt was a nightmare compared to gentoo and portage, and it is the reason i switched. I got sick of trying to deal with rpms. Anyway, take it for whats it worth. -- Michael GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963
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