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Computing / Mandrake 9.1 - Debian for real work
« on: June 18, 2003, 09:28:24 am »
I left off using Red Hat after version 7.3, something about 8 irked me. Two things actually: (1) They made it difficult to get to the command line (bash shell) after a stock install. (2) The os is prone to overwritting your hand editied config files even when you tell it not to.
It's still a damn fine os, but I recentely installed Mandrake 9.1 and am kinda stuck on it, was easy to get the dvd player xine to work, even though I could probably get mplayer or ogle working if I wanted to spend some time on it.
My favorite distribution of Free Software using the Linux kernel is Debian (debian.org) If you are in to server aplications it's a great system since it is very easy to update and patch using apt-get. Also they name their releases after Toy Story characters, which is a pretty good idea. Their development version is always called SID after the bad kid, it also means "Still In Development"
Using Debian Sid is about the same as using any current version of Red Hat or Mandrake, SUSE etc...
btw Think Red Hat is incorporating apt-get into their distro now.
It's still a damn fine os, but I recentely installed Mandrake 9.1 and am kinda stuck on it, was easy to get the dvd player xine to work, even though I could probably get mplayer or ogle working if I wanted to spend some time on it.
My favorite distribution of Free Software using the Linux kernel is Debian (debian.org) If you are in to server aplications it's a great system since it is very easy to update and patch using apt-get. Also they name their releases after Toy Story characters, which is a pretty good idea. Their development version is always called SID after the bad kid, it also means "Still In Development"
Using Debian Sid is about the same as using any current version of Red Hat or Mandrake, SUSE etc...
btw Think Red Hat is incorporating apt-get into their distro now.