[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

./aal al_h at technologist.com
Fri Aug 18 08:36:40 CDT 2000


This is a resend, 
my first attempt got swallowed in cyberville



> 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.
> 


SuSE uses rpms  ...but only suse rpms
A friend if mine is running SuSE and has almost given up on linux as
a result of SuSE's "uniqueness". SuSE has a very different approach
to most every function and service. Which makes almost every HOWTO
and any other general audience help doc confusing in the extreme.
And with the learning curve of linux, anything that steepens the
path should be avoided.

SuSE IS a great distro
just NOT for newbies


If you want to try Mandrake7.1, I have the 2 install CD's from their
site, drop me a line, we can work it out.;)

./aal




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