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  From: Phil Pittard <vk5ham@seol.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:36:30 +1030

My Humble Opinion of MANDRAKE

Hmmmmm - I acquired Mandrake-7 this arvo.... is it my imagination or is
Mandrake just a dodgy copy of RH with a few "enhancements"???? 
It has a nice install BUT thereafter was not real impressive. Cant
identify my video card properly, cant configure my 3c509 or 3c503 or
ESS1868... refused to enable inetd, the mandrake "drakx***" tools (eg/
drakxservice) dont work & throw core dumps, initially denied me root
access despite me having typed my usual passwd in (and no - i didnt
screw up!)  etc etc etc etc. It seems incapable of managing something as
simple as figuring out what deps are required & installing them along
with the required apps packages I selected. In the end I just configured
the whole bloody thing manually. Once done its actually quite
good...considering!
From stuff I have read it seems to not be the most popular linux
around... if they fixed all the crap it would be quite good. After
trying SuSE, RedHat, Caldera, Corel, Slakware & now Mandrake, I have to
say that SuSE & Caldera are excellent for ease of rpm installation &
configuration compared to most others.

Spose I should run for cover now... doesnt matter cos I will be AFK til
Monday morning anyway!

Phil
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Phil Pittard
South East Network Solutions
Mobile: 0409314493
Remote Linux/Unix SysAdmin, S.E.O.L.
Linux SysOp, S.E.R.G.
http://vk5ham.au.com
Email: vk5ham@vk5ham.au.com
       vk5ham@seol.net.au

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