Brief reminder/warning/explanation re Mandrake Community editions:
the 'community' editions are an ongoing beta-testing exercise by the mandrake community. This is s/w that is very likely to be broken. It is not going to give an stable mandrake install.
Unless you really want to be part of a beta-testing exercise - including frequent large updates- don't use the Community edition - use the major 'Official' releases.
Syd
syd wrote:
Brief reminder/warning/explanation re Mandrake Community editions:
the 'community' editions are an ongoing beta-testing exercise by the mandrake community. This is s/w that is very likely to be broken. It is not going to give an stable mandrake install.
Unless you really want to be part of a beta-testing exercise - including frequent large updates- don't use the Community edition
- use the major 'Official' releases.
Syd
Unfortunately there seems to be very little consistency in the stability of community and official releases. For 10.0 the community edition was seriously flawed and the final was pretty good. From all accounts the opposite is true for 10.1
Ian
[Sorry if this appears twice - posted from wrong account first time]
Unfortunately there seems to be very little consistency in the stability of community and official releases. For 10.0 the community edition was seriously flawed and the final was pretty good. From all accounts the opposite is true for 10.1
I never got round to installing 10.1 Community, but I don't have any real problems with 10.1 Official. IIRC the 'problems' with Official that have been mentioned here are just that the commercial packages don't come on the downloadable distro ISOs but have to be downloaded separately, which I presume is the same as with Community. Maybe I missed some other things that were reported though.
Thanks all for your comments on Mandrake. Sorry if I was ranting a bit - I promise I'll calm down in future.
My e-mail has been on and off lately whilst I've been in a distro-limbo and trying out some new distros. At the moment I have just installed ubuntu linux (www.ubuntulinux.org) and it's looking pretty good. Booting and installation is a little rough looking but once up and running it's pretty cool.
The only thing with this distro is it has removed the root password/user in favour of sudo for admin tasks. There are reasons for this on the website explaining the pros and cons. What does the group think about this? Should I set a root user back up or keep the sudo thingy. It does feel a little strange in use.
Rgds,
Martin
On 9/11/2004, "Martin Collins" sickofthesea@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
The only thing with this distro is it has removed the root password/user in favour of sudo for admin tasks. There are reasons for this on the website explaining the pros and cons. What does the group think about this? Should I set a root user back up or keep the sudo thingy. It does feel a little strange in use.
If it's good enough for Apple....
*ducks*
Matt
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 04:05:28PM +0000, Martin Collins wrote:
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The only thing with this distro is it has removed the root password/user in favour of sudo for admin tasks. There are reasons for this on the website explaining the pros and cons. What does the group think about this? Should I set a root user back up or keep the sudo thingy. It does feel a little strange in use.
I've been using sudo for administration tasks for quite some time now, it seems to work really rather well... of course, you *can* still get a shell as root with sudo, so it shouldn't be that bad for you (think sudo su -, for instance). If you've ever used knoppix, have a look at the aliases in the default install (yes girls and guys, su is aliased to sudo su). If used correctly (so, not randomly starting shells), it is very nice, and leaves a nice log of your commands (or any other sudo user).
Really, give it a week, you'll not regret it :)
Cheers,
Unfortunately there seems to be very little consistency in the stability of community and official releases. For 10.0 the community edition was seriously flawed and the final was pretty good. From all accounts the opposite is true for 10.1
I never got round to installing 10.1 Community, but I don't have any real problems with 10.1 Official. IIRC the 'problems' with Official that have been mentioned here are just that the commercial packages don't come on the downloadable distro ISOs but have to be downloaded separately, which is the same as with Community. Maybe I missed some other things that were reported though.
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