Subject: Re: red hat
From: Jim (jwadell@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 02 2002 - 19:47:12 AKST
Leif Sawyer wrote:
> > From: FeLoNiouS_MoNK [mailto:codered@gci.net]
> >
> > ok .. maybe its this fourty im drinkin talkin but.. ive
> > decided to warn everyone on this lug to NOT upgrade to
> > R.H. 7.2 .. i have had nothing but problems ever since ive
> > upgraded.. i was warned but didnt listen ...
> > once again im thinkin its he 4 0 talkin but im thinkin about changin
> > over to fBSD ... can anyone give me a reason not to? just outta
> > curiosity .. let me know.. may be its just red hate that gave
> > me a nasty taste in my mouth about linux... ive use all the BSD
> > from open to net .... but only have used one ver of linux... so ..
> > am i just sterotypin linux from one bad flavor?..
>
> Well, i'm not a user of fBSD -- long ago on a fredbox far away I had
> an account, but that's been ages.
>
> As far as linux distros, I started on homebrewing (back in the 0.12 kernel
> days)
> then tried the beta yggdrasil distro (0.95a kernel), and from there moved
> to slackware. I stayed with slack/homebrewing until TurboLinux, then moved
> to Mandrake 7.
>
> I've been at Mandrake ever since then (currently 8.1?) on all of my ix86
> boxen.
>
> On my Sparc, I use Suse. I'm actually upgrading (right now!) from 7.0 to
> the 7.3
> distro. It's been fairly solid, and though it takes a sec to remember the
> suse-isms over the mandrake-isms, it's been a pretty compatible combo.
>
> Neither of them has any major issues, and while the suse distro is nice, i
> think
> i prefer Mandrake -- although I ALWAYS use expert and manually tune the
> package
> selections. It's just a little too newbie-oriented for me to run
> automagically.
> I do appreciate the fact that Mandrake is tuned for my pentiums, as opposed
> for i386
> (which most other intel distros are set for)
beta yggdrasil distro (0.95a kernel)! There is a flash! My first, purchased
for a lot of money (about $65) at the huge tech book center in LA. I think I
even still have it
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