[NTLUG:Discuss] Mandrake questions

[mike]

        Around here we tout both SuSE and Mandrake as being excellent for
beginners.

        A lot of SuSE and ManDrake rpms work on each other.

        All one can do is try it and see.

        AFAIK all RPMS with noarch in the name will work on all distros.  I
wish they were all "noarch"


On 18-Aug-00 ./aal wrote:
> 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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