[Gllug] Advocacy required.

[Matt Amos]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 02:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> Can't help but at the risk of starting another argument, if he is wanting
> to see easy of use and installation then can I suggest Mandrake as it is
> particularly fluffy, hardware detection seems to work well and installation
> problem free.  Although, if he has been given an old machine then maybe a
> graphical installer will be too memory intensive.

and if it is a 486 then mandrake wont work on it. mandrake is default 
compiled for i586, so it will just crash.

for fair comparison it might be worth lending him a real computer. one 
that would run XP or similar, so the two can be compared in the same 
environment... 'cos XP wont run on a 486, i guarantee it ;)

cya,

matt


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