I am dissatisfied

[Keith Antoine]

I am after 2 years or so still dissatisfied with Mandarke/SuSe, in point of 
fact I have after spending much money given Suse away and am thinkink of 
doing the same with Mandrake. 

Mandrake is great but for one thing, installation of rpms through urpmi and 
all its inherant dependencies. If the rpm is not a mandrake compiled the it 
is fairly certain it will either reject it out of hand or the dependencies 
are an absolute menace.

Now what I want is the old Caldera back and updated, but that is a pipe dream 
of course. So I have Redhat 9.0 (shrike) and also Slackware 9.0 on cd's. As I 
do not wish, as I have done in the past, start a flame war: Could I ask for 
some detatched and dispasionate thoughts on both of these, ease of install 
also how good are they seeing 100% of hardware installed, no real big 
gotchas. 

How arev they with tarball installs and also rpm's. How well do they stick to 
std program install no beta install or esoteric installs that need 
workrounds.

I am sure that you all know what I want, I have not asked for any others as I 
know little re the rest. However feedback would be appreciated, again I ask 
no "this is a great OS' without the reasons as to why. <grin> Now what have I 
started !!

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage