Mandrake or Slackware

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Condon Thomas A KPWA:
> 
> 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 Slackware. Mandrake dinks with the kernel and makes a lot
of other "helpful" decisions for you that you really prefer to make
yourself. Slackware is lean and clean. As a result, I think it is
faster and easier to maintain because you don't have to decipher Mandrake's
way of doing things (or Red Hat's, or SuSE's, or...).

Kurt
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