[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

[Kevin Brannen]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> 
> I'm giving very serious consideration to switching my systems from RH
> 6.1 to Mandrake 7.1 and I'd like to get some feedback to those that have
> been using it.  I don't want to start a distrib war here so I'm not
> interested in its better comments:)  I've also considered S.U.S.E. but
> I'd like to keep the RPM packager approach and the XFree 4.0 is
> attractive to me as well. ...

I'll not touch the distro war thing, but will make a small correction to your
statement in case you want to reconsider...

If you look at SuSE 6.x, you'll find that it is RPM based; or at least there
are RPMs all over my CDs. :-)  That doesn't touch the Pentium based build
issue, or probably other Mandrake issues, obviously.

Kevin