Question

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 09:50:52 -0500
StreetSmart disseminated the following:

> I'm kind of confused on the whole topic. But yes my question has been
> answered. Just to clarify do you guys think mandrake is a good distro for
> beginners?

Definitely, at least as far as totally free (as in beer) distros go. If you want
to pony up some dough for something that requires a *little* less fiddling
(proprietary drivers, Flash plugins and all that), then you can go with Libranet
or Xandros, or you can even buy the Mandrake Discovery Edition which comes with
everything you'll need for a full desktop experience (aforementioned drivers
like Nvidia, Flash and Java plugins, etc.). Mandrake detects and supports almost
all newer hardware, I even have it working with my digital camera and Visor
(Palm OS).

There is a very good-sized Mandrake community, the mailing lists are populated
by very knowledgeable and helpful people.

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