[Wolves] Mandrake 10.1

[Kevanf1]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:49:14 +0000, Peter Cannon
<peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Just be aware that support might not mean what you think! in the case of Suse
> the support only relates to 'installation issues' i.e "Oi Mr Suse support I
> just loaded 9.2 and the keyboard don't work!" this kind of thing they will
> attempt to help with however if you ask them how to create a symbolic link to
> a custom app you have they'll send you away with a flea in your ear.

I'll second that.  I've tried SuSE support and it is well, let's say
they have a different idea of support as everybody else.  Don't get me
wrong, the support they give is first class it just may not be what
you want.


> Guys I know you are all orgasmic with Ubantu but do Tim and other new users a
> favour don't recommend Ubantu, its painfully obvious from this list and
> others that it still needs a lot of work and it would be unfair to expect
> someone comming to terms with Linux to have the added problems with this
> release.
> 
> I know you are all willing to help and you all want to promote Ubantu but give
> the guy a break :-)
> 

Agreed again on that I'm afraid.  I still have not managed to get
Ubuntu up and running on either of my PC's.  I've had SuSE, Madrake
and Red Hat (old one) running on at least one and don't forget I did
have Xandros which is I believe Debian based? on the old PC.

That's just my personal experience of Ubuntu.  I've no doubt it is a
very good distro but I have to go with my personal experience.
> 
> > If you buy a boxed set of any Linux distribution, SuSE
> > particularly, you will get a nice big manual that
> > tells you how to do stuff.
> 
> Sound advice theres nothing like a manual
> 
The SuSE manuals are actually pretty good.  But, you can always get
the 'Bible' series for Fedora core and other distro's I believe which
is a very good third party 'manual'.


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