Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:31:08 +0100 From: arden <arden@nildram.co.uk> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: FreeBSD Org <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD weakness. Message-ID: <1087903868.2382.15.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1087868195.834.212.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> References: <40D484A2.2080602@yahoo.com> <40D496C7.3090908@wcborstel.nl> <1087677031.834.99.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> <40D6876E.8050005@yahoo.com> <1087868195.834.212.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org>
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On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 02:36, Tom McLaughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 02:59, Lloyd Hayes wrote: > > >Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. > > >BSD is for people who love Unix. > > > > Under these conditions, I guess that I need to go for Linux... > > > > I'f you're going to go with Linux then I'd recommend Mandrake. Many > people would also recommend Suse as well but I never personally used > that so I can't vouch for it but you many want to give that a whirl. > I'd stay away from Fedora though, I don't think it's meant for anyone > besides those willing to work on it when they find problems. > > Mandrake has the Community Download edition available about a month I > think before the pay CD release. It's a way for all the early adopters > to leach, find bugs, and kvetch before the people paying Mandrakesoft's > bills get their version. :) Wait two weeks or so after the release for > the errata to flow in then install and run their update utility. > Mandrake served me well for a number of years until I felt I needed > something different which is why I am here. It's still the distribution > I'd recommend to anyone who doesn't feel like bothering with all the > internals. > > Tom > id second the mandrake vote I started with mandrake thought id be cleaver an go hardcore with slackware then went back to mandrake as a desktop os arden > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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