[NCLUG] Linux Version

[kensharon.morris at att.net]

As a novice...I tried Redhat, Suse, Corel and
Mandrake 7.0... on my machine a 300 mhz AMD, 20g hard
drive 84meg memory Mandrake 7.0 worked the best.
Then I got the Win4Lin and have Win98 working on top
of Linux for those applications I can't get rid of
for customers (Word) and windows runs faster than 
in native mode.  I think it is because the file system
is more efficient and already up and running vs windows
has to boot everything.
I am very pleased with Mandrake!
> In defense of Red Hat let me say I've installed 7.1 on a couple of Pentium
> machines (166, 550) and it is a very slick install.  I was having trouble
> with a hard drive at one point and repeatedly re-installed Windows 2000 and
> Red Hat 7.1.  After a few cycles I think I proffered the Red Hat
> installation process over Windows.
> 
> I'll add that a friend of mine also tried Mandrake and prefers it over all
> others.
> 
> I'm currently a fan of Debian.
> 
> Aint choice grand?
> 
> John Purser
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
> Les
> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 10:05
> To: NCLUG at nclug.org
> Subject: [NCLUG] Mandrake 8.1 installed.
> 
> 
> Hi ncluggers,
>   I've been silently lurking on this mailing list for
> a long time and had to share something. I recommend
> Mandrake 8.1 Linux to other linux non-power users
> based on my recent experience with it.  Ever since I
> got a cable modem last year I was never able to get my
> Redhat 5.2 setup to connect to the internet inspite of
> hours of trying. Henceforth I was frustrated and
> losing interest in linux. I'm too much of a cheapskate
> to buy an $80 or so to upgrade for the latest greatest
> linux so I slowly and quietly quit using linux
> altogether. However, keeping up on this mailing list
> has kept my interest going and I've wanted to get back
> into it. The other day I discovered
> http://www.linuxsoftware.org and found I could
> download a complete version of any of 20 distros for
> FREE! I chose Mandrake because it looked like it would
> be a painless install. Downloaded 3 CD's worth (from
> ftp.tucows, about 2GBs in 3 files in about 10 hours)
> of iso image files and burned them on 3 CDs. The
> install was the easiest and most intuitive of any I've
> ever done due to a great GUI and a logical progression
> of questions and a lot of automatic stuff. That was
> great because I'm too busy right now, and not much in
> the mood, to spend hours upon hours of futzing with
> every little setting, configurator or makefile, to get
> X going or to get the network stuff happening. I had
> those running in about 15 minutes with mandrake. I've
> spent days upon days (weeks really) messing with
> Slakware and Redhat and never ever had this much
> success. I'm still exploring KDE and GNOME and trying
> to decide which I like best. The software package
> installer is wonderful. I'm basically a happy camper
> now.
>    Anyway I just had to share my story. My linux
> experience is vastly improved. Now all I need to is
> add a new harddrive on my newer computer and intall it
> on there because my tired old P133 is dog slow with
> all this automation and gui stuff running. I was
> hoping to attend the installfest but alas I have to
> attend a nieces silly 4th birthday party instead.
> 
> Les Watkinson
> 
> "When I die I want to die quietly in my sleep
>  like my uncle.  Not yelling and screaming
>  like my uncle's passengers."
> 
> 
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