[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[Margot]

Peter wrote:
>                     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.
> 
Peter,

Before installing Mandrake, I suggest you have a look at the 
Community Twiki:

http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/WebHome

The printers section might be particularly useful to you:
http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PriNters

And you might like to subscribe to the Mandrake Newbie Mailing List

http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/flists.php3

Good luck!
-- 
Regards
Margot
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