I am dissatisfied

[collins]

Myles Green wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 19:49, Keith Antoine wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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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>As much as I like and prefer to use Slackware for my own purposes (and
>reasons) I would recommend that you give RH 9.0 a go. I tried it out
>here and liked it because it detected and set up everything that was
>plugged in and/or turned on during the install - it even picks up newly
>attached or detached devices (at least on startup/reboot).
>
>You will likely need to find and install certain multimedia packages
>(mp3 players, video players, etc.) but, being Red Hat, the binaries are
>never far away or hard to find.
>
>There, not a flame to be seen ;o)
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>HTH
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I would agree with Llama and Miles.  For your purposes, RH would be the 
best choice.  I ran a RH system for several months, and it was quite 
easy to use once I got used to a few RHisms.

Slack is a great product, but you would need to put a lot more effort 
into it.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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