On Sunday 03 Aug 2003 8:37 am, abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:25:10PM +0100, BenE wrote:
Maybe linux geeks should install mandrake once in a while to see how things are done there?
The only times I ever installed mandrake it gave me a horribly broken system that didn't work, I even purchased a box set once upon a time when a newbie to help me get along and they had managed to ship a CD with broken init scripts. Their fix was to download 4 rpms and install them at the command line, that didn't exactly fill me with confidence.
I used Mandrake from 7.0 to 7.2, abandoned it in favour of Red Hat 7.2 when mandrake reached 8.0 and now have gone back to Mandrake now it has reached 9.1
Over the years I have tried many distroa and the installation grief has varied enormously. However, in general hey are getting better as time goes on. I recently neede to install win2k on my linux laptop and it was nothing but trouble. Even after installing service pack 3 it still only boots about one time in five.
Ian