[Klug-general] Distro Wars

[George Prowse]

"No kernel installed"? Didn't you choose a kernel somewhere? Its been a 
while since i've used Mandrake but you should have been given the 
choices between vanilla-sources and others like mm-sources, ck-sources, 
love-sources and selinux.

George


Peter wrote:

> Hi Laurence,
>
> The poll was a bit of fun. It was useful to me because most of the 
> votes given to Mandrake on the grounds it was good for a beginner like 
> me. It was a pity I couldn't load it. It came up error 'No Kernal 
> Installed' so I'm back to Fedora Core 1.
>
> I think that sums up the philosophy in your message.
>
> Peter.
>
> Laurence Southon wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I won't add a vote but merely make the observation that one of the 
>> great things about Linux is that we have choice, and that choice can 
>> be made from personal preference as well as from a consideration of 
>> the task to be achieved. Any discussion of what is best, is, in my 
>> view, fruitless and a waste of time unless it is qualified by "best 
>> at what, and for whom?".
>>
>> I guess I'm conservative (note the lower case "c"!), as I run vanilla 
>> Debian Woody, not even X installed - all command line stuff, but my 
>> interest is servers that will remain up for months, years even. 
>> Trouble is they run so well I forget how to do certain things when I 
>> want to change something!
>>
>> Remember if you don't like your first choice you can always change!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Laurence Southon
>>
>>
>>
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