Question

[JoeHill]

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 10:53:31 -0500
StreetSmart disseminated the following:

> There are many mandrake distros, what one is best suited for me? They range
> from 7.1 to 9.2 The page is:
> 
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> s
> 
> 
> Iv read the notes on them, they mainly tell you what its compatible with.

Well, you definitely want to go with the latest, since anything before 9.1 is
not going to see many updated packages built for it. IIRC, 9.0 has already been
"EOL'd", ie. it's no longer supported by Mandrakesoft. 9.2 has been very solid
for me once I twiddled with it (I have crappy old hardware). 9.1 should be solid
right off the bat, and once you get that up and running, it's fairly easy to
upgrade to the latest and greatest using 'urpmi', kinda the equivalent (no
flames please) of Debian's 'apt'.

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