simon wrote:
I don't get any of this hassle, my version of Mandrake uses red hat 6.5, the system does not take that much longer to boot than OS/2 or MS windows whatever it is, but the longer time is the price you pay for a system that does the job properly (someone should explain this to Mrs Gate's boy).
Is now a good time to point out how much faster a BSD-style init system comes up (eg on slackware) than a SysV one (as used on Redhat, Debian et al)? Probably not, but my old system boots in around 30s with all services running ;-)
Back to the point in hand: I did try Mandrake a while back during my multiple re-installs (it was at 6.something), but as I haven't used an RPM-based system for a couple of years now, I found the documentation I was given after installing was practically non-existant and I couldn't get the system tailored to how I wanted. It was very slick, though, and I'd rate it as alongside Storm for ease of installation, ahead of most of the established distributions.