Last nite went from Mandrake 6.0 to 7.2. Downloaded 2 cd images (about 1 gig), burned them on my desktop (wasted 4 cd's doing it under windows, then switched to burning in linux). Then installed on my laptop. Mandrake has a real nice GUI install, which also handles all the repartitionig work for you -- no more fdisk/fips. Its a real pretty OS and is red-hat equivalent. My debian/Gnome friends make fun of it, but don't have any real reasons other than its too easy and windows like -- i'm sure you can still hack the crap out of it. Now, to get DVD to work....
-gr
gr at luminousvoid.net http://www.luminousvoid.net
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Dennis Robert Redmond wrote:
> Just upgraded to Red Hat 7.0. Linux has come an amazing long way in 2
> years; it detected all my hardware no prob, got USB support, Zip is
> online, the Gnome window interface is stylin', and the Dialup connection
> is now a breeze, three CD-Roms for a mere $29.95. Red Hat 5.0, by
> contrast, was still pretty hacker-driven, I had to mess around to get
> X-windows to work, etc. The documentation and help systems are also nicely
> done.
>
> Anyone know if this is also true for the other distros out there (Debian,
> etc.)?
>
> -- Dennis
>