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Old 10-13-2000, 12:47 PM   #1
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Jeremy,

What is it about Mandrake that you don't like? I am running Mandrake 7.1 and have it running very well on a P3-550 with 256M RAM, voodoo3, SB32. I am just wondering. I do have a copy of RH 6.2 or 7.0 (depending which one they get) coming soon.
 
Old 10-14-2000, 12:44 PM   #2
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It's not really that I DISlike Mandrake, I just don't really LIKE them. They started as a Red Hat clone, and have shipped some fairly buggy releases. I haven't installed 7.1/7.2 so things may have changed, but I probably won't even bother to try new mandrake releases. I try new Red Hat, Slackware, Debian and SuSE releases and that keeps me busy enough.
 
Old 10-29-2000, 02:42 PM   #3
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Mandrake

I am a former Mandrake user. I shitched to Red Hat and have been very happy. Mandrake is 90% junk (like 12 text editors). Mandrake is bundled with outdated packages and has many bugs. It is well liked by newbies because of the half-decent installer.

Mandrake also leaves out some preffered libraries by default. This is another pain.

One incident I had and still cannot find what is wrong is when i tried to put fidelio on mandrake.
 
Old 10-29-2000, 03:04 PM   #4
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What version of LM where you running? I am running 7.1 and I did do a custom install so I didn't end up with a lot of useless stuff and I've been happy with it. At least so far, I will try LM 7.2.
 
Old 03-05-2002, 03:57 PM   #5
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mandrake sucked. I ran 7.0 for awhile. Then I went to 7.2 because 7.0 wouldnt reconize my network card after I installed it, and it even upgrading to 7.2 it doesnt. An now I cant run quake


I am running SuSE 7.2, much better

Brent Leach
 
Old 03-05-2002, 11:25 PM   #6
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LM 8.1 is good. 8.2 is coming out. Its all about user's preference. I prefer LM over Red Hat any day.
 
Old 03-06-2002, 08:03 AM   #7
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I used to run Mandrake 8.1 too, but then i got sick of all the crap that they put on there and yes, you can remove it all but it takes too long so i just use Gentoo. With Gentoo you make your OS how you WANT it, and thats what i like.
 
Old 03-18-2002, 06:24 AM   #8
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Originally posted by therion12
I used to run Mandrake 8.1 too, but then i got sick of all the crap that they put on there and yes, you can remove it all but it takes too long so i just use Gentoo. With Gentoo you make your OS how you WANT it, and thats what i like.
and I do the same with a mandrake install. the way I like it.
and I don't have to remove things.
 
Old 03-18-2002, 01:49 PM   #9
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I've only been using Linux for a couple of years, and still consider myself a n00b. I've used Mandrake,Suse,Corel and RH. (want to try Slack or Deb but haven't had the time). Right now I use Mandrake 8.1 because when I first installed Linux on my box, my friend, who has been using Linux for years, suggested it for its n00b friendliness. I still like it after 2yrs...Used the expert install to kill all of the junk I don't need and installed Ximian. For my uses (primary work laptop, little bit of Perl/Python and the occasional dvd) it's great. It really wouldn't matter to me what distro I used (as long as it isn't Corel, that distro was terrible for laptops). Just my .02 cents.
 
Old 03-18-2002, 04:48 PM   #10
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I am a former Mandrake user. I shitched to Red Hat and have been very happy. Mandrake is 90% junk (like 12 text editors). Mandrake is bundled with outdated packages and has many bugs. It is well liked by newbies because of the half-decent installer.
If you take the n00b route and do the default install you will get a lot of junk, but it's not just for n00bs. You can use the expert install and pick & choose whatever apps you want installed.

I think of Mandrake as RH+ since it's basically the same as RH but with a smoother install and more features.

I started using Mandrake 3 years ago when RH became too much of a pain to work with (talk about bugs! RH sure isn't exempt from them). I haven't regretted switching one bit.
 
  


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