Mandrake or Fedora?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:18:12PM -0500, mark wrote:
> 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.

I think some people put way too much emphasis on how well the installer
detected their particular combination of hardware and threw a pretty
desktop in their face.  Given I install a machine ones, and use it for
years with upgrading along the way, the installer should preferably let
me do what I want for partitions and filesystems and such, but other
than that I don't really care what it does.  I care how the system runs
and how I install and upgrade things.  Now an installer that is
completely unhelpful and makes me do work I shouldn't have had to does
certainly do anything but impress me, so it does work in reverse.  The
SuSE ftp install I tried a couple of years ago was like that.

Lennart Sorensen
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