On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 04:43, Michael Brailsford wrote: > > 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.
Just in case that two years that you used Mandrake was more than a year ago, Mandrake has way-easy package management now, included even (you don't have to download apt after installation). Urpmi works beautifully from the command line or from the Drakconf gui. Get all your sources from Easy Urpmi (http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/urpmiweb.php) and life is so simple. Bryan > > -- > Michael > GnuPG Fingerprint: 4C56 7C23 8BD9 8B39 C4D4 B8F3 42FB 3634 31B5 E963 ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
