Mandrake or Fedora?

[Madison Kelly]

mark wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
> 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.

'apt-get' is available for, and works great under, Fedora. In fact, it 
is the primary way that I use to keep my machines updated. You can get 
the Fedora rpms from Freshrpms.net.

Madison

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