Mandrake or Fedora?

[mark]

Madison Kelly wrote:

> 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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I likewise had Mandrake, and wasn't that impressed.  I switched to 
Mepis, which I like (the apt-get utility is amazing!).  Like Fedora, 
Mepis is free.  I have not tried Fedora, but I hear good things about it.

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