On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:57 pm, John Aldrich wrote: > I'm thinking of switching to Mandrake from RedHat 9 since RedHat is > effectively discontinuing the full-fledged "hobbyist" version of RedHat and > splitting the userbase between "Fedora" for those of us who don't have > several hundred dollars for "enterprise" linux and those who have the money > and need for "Enterprise" linux. > I think Fedora will actually be much more suited to the hobbyist than RedHat was. I have been playing around with both on my Thinkpad and have written a quick comparison available here:
http://cybercfo.gkmweb.com/fedora_v_mandrake.html > My question is, how well would the switch go? I typically keep my home > directory on it's own partition and another partition with some MP3s and > other miscellaneous data. I typically blow everything else away and > reformat. One thing I liked about RedHat was that when I did this, it would > recognize how my system was partitioned and offer to re-use the old > partitions. Will Mandrake do this for me? I'm on RedHat 9.0 right now with > ext3 file systems throughout. > It will do the same thing, ask you if you want to use your existing partitions. If you usually use this method, then your switch should be quite easy. > I have used Mandrake before, but the last time I think I used it was back > around Mandrake 5 or 6, before they made it so difficult to get ISOs of the > distro. I basically liked it then, but there were a few "advanced" features > I wasn't so thrilled with, but I'm looking at giving it another shot. There are many features that it has that I love, but others hate, like msec and shorewall. As with anything, it really just takes some getting used to and going through the learning curve. mandrake also has a lot of nice default config files (well remarked too) for most apps, like postfix and samba. -- /g "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read" -Groucho Marx
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