Quoting "Casey T. Deccio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Okay, the latest thread has gotten people talking about distros again. > I hear a lot about distros in this manner, but just to get a feel for > things, I'd be interested to see what distros everyone uses for their > different machines.
The two distros I have installed on my own machines are various versions of Red Hat, and various versions of Mandrake. I started with Mandrake 8.0, and I've used each one since then. The only one I disliked was 8.2. Through Mandrake I learned much about Linux and really liked the KDE interface. When I bought my laptop, for some reason Lilo in Mandrake 8.2 would not work, so Art Moore convinced me to try Red Hat 7.3. It was different and I loved it. I considered switching entirely to Red Hat for all my machines. But when 8.0 came out, I tried it and it was a disaster. Do searches on google with Red Hat breaking KDE, and you'll see what I mean. I ended up putting 7.3 back on it. I felt that I really had not given Red Hat 8 a chance based on some comments from the UUG list, so when RH 9 came out, I decided to give it a try. Again, I like KDE, and KDE in Red Hat 8 and 9 is a complete disaster. I'll keep my rant for another day, but I tried, I really tried to use Red Hat 9. I hated it. So by then Mandrake 9.1 was out so I crossed my fingers and hoped that Lilo would work, and it did. KDE issues aside, I feel most configuration tools in Mandrake (at least the ones I use) are easier to use than Red Hat's. The one exception I remember was the network configuration tool in Red Hat 7.3. I really liked it. At this point I've gone beyond some of the tools, but I continue to be impressed by what Mandrake has done to help the newbie move it Linux and to make things I don't know how to do the "hacker way" really easy. Also one thing that Mandrake has that RH doesn't is a program in the installer to resize your WinDOS partition if you decide to dual (pun intended) boot. And as of Mandrake 9.1, it works on NTFS. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
