[StAndrews and Fife LUG] Linux - Mandrake

[bbd]

David is there anything of real value on the 3rd CD ? but I guess a copy =
of
the disk would be good.

I nearly bought the DVD version but I didn't have a spare drive, until th=
is
week - got  a DVD drive for =A330

regards brian



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tillotson" <linux@acmelabs.demon.co.uk>
To: <standrews@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [StAndrews and Fife LUG] Linux - Mandrake


> In message <1045826959.3e560d8f7e2aa@www.uk.nx14.com>, Stuart Mc
> Anderson <stuart@nx14.com> writes
> >I've installed RedHat 8 on my systems. Its good, nice and easy _after =
we
had a
> >little disagreement about mount points_ and now I've just got around t=
o
> >installing SuSe 8.1 on the main computer.
>
> Aah, the old RH problem - stuff the FHS and LSB, we do things /our/ way=
!
>
> >And to date I'm only having one problem with it, i still haven't
> >workout how to
> >get it to share its internet connection with RedHat. Once I've done
> >that then i
> >can lI've a Mirco$oft free life.
>
> Hmm, I was under the impression that YaST2 had a module to set this up.
> I would suggest the manual tweaks required to do this, but SusE has a
> reputation (along with RH and Mandrake) of having a config tool that
> scraps any manual changes the next time it's run!
>
> >> Installed Mandrake 9 of 2-CD set from Linux magazine.
> >> what a superb installation, and now have my Alcatel ADSL modem worki=
ng
:o)
>
> I have the full set of 3 ISOs if you'd like a copy of the 3rd disc
> (actually, I have a redundant copy of disc 3, if you want it!)
>
> >> home network with winXP pc also on the network.  I used Red Hat 7.2
before,
> >> but Mandrake was so much easier and better.  I'm not sure what Red H=
at
8 is
> >> but I guess its just as good.
>
> Or bad, depending on your POV :P
> Personally I prefer Debian, but have a bit of a chicken and egg
> situation with my ADSL router. Hence my use of Mandrake 9 here - I must
> state for the record that I have never seen a distro with a simpler
> installer (except Knoppix, but that's cheating :)  - it beats M$ Windoz=
e
> hands down (I had to do 3 re-installs of that POS this week!)
>
> >> even closer now to ditching microsoft.
>
> Well, M$ software kept me in a job (or did it?) for 3.5 years, so I
> can't complain too much myself!
> --
> David Tillotson
>
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