Mandrake or Fedora?

[Madison Kelly]

I too tried Mandrake (9.1) and I wasn't that impressed. Pretty, that's 
about all I could say for it, but if I want pretty I'll buy a Mac with 
OSX ;).

Madison

Gregory Pleau wrote:
> I have switched 26 machines so far to Fedora with minimal problems.
> I have Mandrake in a VM session on my laptop, but it just isn't lighting my
> fire.
> 
> 
> - Greg
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug at ss.org] On Behalf Of Madison
>>Kelly
>>Sent: January 13, 2004 4:44 PM
>>To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
>>Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Mandrake or Fedora?
>>
>>I have switched to Fedora on four on my machines (including my daily
>>work and main home machines) as well as have helped a few friends make
>>the switch to Fedora. Heck, I have even gotten two Linux newbies up and
>>running under Fedora. All in all, I am quite happy with it.
>>
>>My vote :)
>>
>>Madison
>>
>>Matthew Godycki wrote:
>>
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>For the past few years I have been running RedHat on my Linux server.
>>
>>I've recently just finished building a new machine to replace my poor old
>>aging linux box.  Of course, I now have to make a distro choice seeing as
>>RedHat as we knew it is no more.
>>
>>>I've narrowed it down to either the Fedora project or Mandrake.  I've
>>
>>got it down to those two mostly because I'd been using RedHad for so many
>>years, that I'm honestly not all that interested in having to relearn new
>>configurations, setups, and all that.  I use Linux as a developer, and as
>>such I'm not all that into the administration side of things, so I'd like
>>to use something that's familiar.  I like to minimize my time spent on
>>administering the box, and focus on what I like playing with (Java, PHP,
>>etc, etc on Linux).
>>
>>>Obviously, Fedora is a choice, as is Mandrake seeing as it's rather
>>
>>similar to RedHat.
>>
>>>Do any of you have any opinions or suggestions when it comes to those
>>
>>two distributions?
>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>-Matt


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