On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 08:54:22AM -0500 or thereabouts, piglet wrote:
>
> I notice that no one ever mentions Corel as a newbie distroI'm
> surrounded by RH folks, and I work on RH boxen at work, but it's always been
> confusing to me. Now that I'm running linux on my normal workbox, I opted
At 08:54 AM 5/25/2001 -0500, piglet wrote:
>I notice that no one ever mentions Corel as a newbie distroI'm
>surrounded by RH folks, and I work on RH boxen at work, but it's always been
>confusing to me. Now that I'm running linux on my normal workbox, I opted
>to go with Corel because it seem
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Scott wrote:
> At 07:09 PM 5/24/2001 +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
> >8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
> >an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
> >found; every distro breaks things occasionally. W
On 5/25/01 8:33 AM, "Michelle Murrain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think that Mandrake is great for Linux newbies. I think it's arguably the
> best distro for newbies. But I think it's also easy to outgrow. I'm getting
> to the point now where I'm feeling like I either want Debian or Slack
At 09:33 AM 5/25/2001 -0400, Michelle Murrain wrote:
>I think that Mandrake is great for Linux newbies. I think it's arguably the
>best distro for newbies. But I think it's also easy to outgrow. I'm getting
>to the point now where I'm feeling like I either want Debian or Slackware -
>nothing else
On Friday 25 May 2001 08:45 am, Scott wrote:
> Don't you think Mandrake has done some wonder's for the desktop though?
> While I feel like I am outgrowing it right now and want the comfort of the
> command line
> more than a wizard--there are benefits of setting things up the way they
> did. Hec
At 07:09 PM 5/24/2001 +0100, James Sutherland wrote:
>8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
>an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
>found; every distro breaks things occasionally. What I *AM* ditching
>Mandrake for is replac
Hi, James, and everyone else,
> Nicer, I'll agree, but I'm not sure I can ever forgive them those stupid
> Perl wrappers round everything... When I run "gcc", I want to be running
> the GNU C Compiler, not some sort of colouring-in-script wrapped round
it!
Not to split hairs, but... you *are*
On Thursday 24 May 2001 02:09 pm, James Sutherland wrote:
> 8.0, updated a few days ago. I'm not blaming Mandrake for breaking Perl in
> an update - Debian managed to break sendmail not too long ago, as Michelle
> found; every distro breaks things occasionally. What I *AM* ditching
> Mandrake for
On Thu, 24 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, James,
>
> > Yep: I tried Mandrake just over a year ago, and fell in love with it.
> > S much more "refined" than RedHat, I thought. Then it disabled my
> > system. Oops. How? Well, **EVERY** binary on a Mandrake system is a Perl
> > script (w
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