On Saturday 22 February 2003 04:43 am, Michael Brailsford asked of the Jedi Counsel: > > 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.
I think it also depends on your definition of good package management. For a beginner or someone who is not going to use any "hacker" distro, turning on drakconf and using Mandrake Update to keep packages up to date is a snap in 9. I've used 8 - 9, and they have come a long way with package management in that respect IMHO. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knine.net/ WARNING: This product warps space and time in its vicinity. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
