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[Lee]

Keith Antoine wrote:
> 
> On Friday 10 May 2002 10:37 am, Brett I. Holcomb uttered words of wisdom:
> > What do you recommend then for a distro?  I see - and this is based only on
> > my time in the newsgroups and mailing lists:
> >
> > RH - the MS an AOL of the Linux world: breaks rules, doesn't maintain
> > standards,bleeding edge, doesn't have much of a clue.  They made it popular
> > but lost it
> >
> > SUSE - ?
> >
> > Mandrake - ?

Been running Mandrake since the Caldera Crash. Much as I hate to admit
it the French have done a bang up job. I have a quad boot box with both
Mandrake 8.0 SuSe 7.2 running. For most day-to-day work I used the
Mandrake. SuSe, I use when I fool around with all the extra goodies they
bundled into the distro, like games and burners. Stability wise Mandrake
seems to be rock solid, like the old Caldera 2.2 version I had a
fondness for. The only thing unstable with it is that every few months
it crunches the Opera browser, but the thing is so loaded with browsers
that I usually don't miss it. Installation was a snap as the Mandrake
found just about everything I had hanging on the box, even the zip
drive.
> >
> > Debian - ?
> 
> No idea with Debian but way bsck when I started, Uh maybe 94, debian was one
> that was always long way behind, stable but! Suse 7.3 was a bit of a disaater
> but the new one , *.0, has good reports so we just clubbed in and bought it.
> Mandrake 8.2 is buggy and as far as I am concerned after fighting it for 3 -4
> weeks a disaster too. There are too many rushed beta progs in it.
> 
> --
> Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy'
> 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161
> Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage
> 
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