"user friendliest" Linux distro

[Marc Lijour]

Le 17 Mars 2004 17:48, JoeHill a écrit :
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:53:03 -0500
>
> Lloyd Budd disseminated the following:
> > When there was the uncertainty regarding a RedHat product for
> > home users I switched to Mandrake.  The problems with
> > Mandrake are:
> > * finding online repositories (urpmi) for Mandrake
> > -- http://urpmi.org/easyurpmi/index.php really is not that nice
>
> Any particular reason? Pick the closest mirror, add the sources, yer done,
> no?
>
> > * non-"members" do not have access to "core" computing
> > technologies such as Macro. Flash plugin for browser
>
> I have Flash working, and I ain't no member (yet). I see nothing wrong with
> offering non-GPL software, like Nvidia drivers or Flash plugins, as easily
> installed RPM's, to members only. Does the free version of Suse come with
> these things? I must admit, I'm not that familiar with Suse.
>
> > * too cutting edge -- you are likely to cut getting cut, or at least the
> > members will ;-)  This is not much of an issue, because there is no
> > good reason to always run at the latest release.  But what makes
> > this issue annoying is Mandrake members whining about it ;-)
>
> Granted, though the bugfixes and updates to those 'cutting edge' issues are
> fairly prompt.
>
> > * Mandrake loss / losing / frustrating some of the best independent
> >   pkg makers .  For example, Chipster and Texstar.
>
> Ya, Texstar was a great loss, however, AFAIK Chipster is still building
> RPM's for Mandrake:
>
> http://norlug.org/~chipster/index.pxml?rpms
>
> and there are others stepping up to the plate like:
>
> http://www.eslrahc.com/

Thanks for the good addresses ;-)

> and of course Thac is still in business.
>
> I very rarely am 'forced' to build from source.

Same for me!

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