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WinXP V Mandrake 8.1

 

[Embattle]

Yes I've seen him waffle on before about Linux.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Is it just me, or is XP barely mentioned? Oh well, i've heard plenty of people saying mandrake is shit, but very few saying bad about RH or SuSe.

 

[old.Reverend Flatus]

I've used RedHat and Mandrake, can't say I have any complaints about either, they seem pretty similar. I only use them as servers, command line stuff so I guess the major differences stand out with the GUIs.
Never tried SUSE, must give it a go sometime.

 

[bids]

Been using Mandrake 8 since it appeared, and have to say well impressed. The installation is well easy now, as the article says, and actually had less of a problem than a recent install of XP Pro (device drivers, network config, etc).

But being pragmatic, Linux kicks serious arse as a server OS (above NT, Win2k imho), but it 'aint never gonna get on the desktop - not enough mainstream applications/games to do that, and can be a bastard to configure correctly.

 

[Furr]

xp rulez and thers nutin u can say to convert me

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by FuROf knight
xp rulez and thers nutin u can say to convert me

hahahahaha I've missed this board

 

[Embattle]

Die

 

[ShockingAlberto]

How do you know you like XP more than say RH when you've never tried RH?

Use some sense man.

 

[Sar]

I'm actually wanting to try Mandrake 8.1 myself now I have a feckin stable system.



Think I'll d/l it at the weekend, burn it to cd and give it a bash (no pun intended).

 

[ShockingAlberto]

I recommend RH, but as it's the only dristro i've tried, i can't really comment on any others.

 

[Testin da Cable]

mandrake would be good [if you've never done any [L]unix before] mate.
it's a matter of taste, one eventually finds a distro one really likes

 

[Sar]

Aye, I'll be a complete linux n00b

I've tried installing it multiple times before, but either the distro required advanced knowledge to install (me the n00b at this remember), or the PC I tried to install it on wasn't having any of it cos it was so bloody unstable (Say hello once more to my ex-PC, the athlon system).

This P4 rig is rock solid stable, so Linux should be ok on it

 

[Testin da Cable]

I'd like to say linux is ok on anything, but then the wrath of the anti-linux mob would decend apon this thread so I won't

 

[Furr]

I had my experince with Red Hat 6, and it was wank

 

[Testin da Cable]

did it just not work, or did you not know enough to make it work?
imo, 6.1 was one of their better efforts