Mandrake or Slackware

[Aaron Grewell]

On Thursday 24 July 2003 01:04 pm, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
> Folks,
>
> If you had to choose, with only a couple hours to decide, between Slackware
> and Mandrake for a laptop install, which would you choose?  I don't know
> either of them well enough to make a logical decision, but I'm in the
> position of needing to make that decision.
>
> Any insights from the list would be appreciated.
>

I'd choose whichever you are more familiar with.  If you've never used either, 
start with Mandrake.  Slack allows a much lower garbage quotient, but you 
have to spend more time on it.