[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Peter]

                     For     Against
Mandrake              7
SUSE                  2
Ubuntu                1         1
Gentoo                2         1
Fedora                1         2
Debian                2
Novell Desktop        1

Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my queries.

The poll was fun and shows that Mandrake is the most recommended for 
beginners so I'm picking up a copy of version 10.1 tomorrow.

Unless I strike lucky with the printer on Mandrake I think I'll let 
Father Christmas sort it. (I hope!!!!!!!). I've installed Windows 
versions of Mozilla and OpenOffice on friends computers as well as the 
Windows side of my machine so I can get round the problem.

One last question - if my machine is an i686, is that compatible with 
i686_64 or are they completely different. It seems to be a major 
weakness of Linux that it's so dependent on chip architecture.

Peter.

Paul Littlefield wrote:

>I've voted 1 for Mandrake and 1 for Gentoo.
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>I started with Mandrake 2 years ago and is perfect for beginnners, then moved 
>to Gentoo when I had enough experience.
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>My wife's machine has had Mandrake 10 for the last year, but will be changeing 
>that to Gentoo over Xmas.
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