Mandrake 7 was pretty decent. There were some small problems with install but it was much better then the 7.1. After upgrading Mandrake version of RPM it stooped working. I have head problems with some config stuff and with routing. I think I am ready to reload with RedHat and to custom distro. I was going to look into Debian but It seems they are little slow with updates to newer versions of kernel. I have played with RH Caldera and Mandrake. RH seems to be a base for everything so it should be a good platform for a custom setup. The Wolf -> -----Original Message----- -> From: John W [mailto:wisdom04@home.com] -> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 12:50 PM -> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> Subject: Re: RPM -> -> -> I am curious about the different experiences everyone is having with -> Mandrake myself. I like some goodies in Mandrake but as Hans -> mentioned -> I have trouble running KDE on my system. I have heard alot of talk -> about Debian and have become increasingly interested in giving it a -> try although, I've heard the install can be brutal and I am a Linux -> newbie. I don't want to cross any lines regarding the various distros -> though I would be interested in advice with Debian and my newness to -> GNU/Linux -> Thanks, -> John -> ----- Original Message ----- -> From: "der.hans" -> To: -> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 11:46 AM -> Subject: Re: RPM -> -> -> > Am 20. Sep, 2000 schwäzte Rod Roark so: -> > -> > > Hmm, my wife has been on 7.1 for a while without incident. Of -> course -> > > I never use rpmdrake, just rpm from the command line. I'd be -> interested -> > > to hear any more details about what's broken. -> > -> > The main things I'm running into are a somewhat hosed X setup (that -> > might've been me not understanding how Mandrake is setup, but -> Mandrake is -> > definitely hosed for KDE on a small, low-quality monitor) and probs -> with -> > the admin packages. LinuxConf does what it's supposed to (for the -> most -> > part), but generally dumps core when it exits. Guess that counts as -> > exiting :). -> > -> > rpmdrake is massively hosed and won't work. Several regexps in -> > /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia won't work. It's calling wget with illegal -> URLs -> > [1]. rpmdrake doesn't allow for specifying where on a CD -> to find the -> > repository, but /usr/sbin/urpmi.addmedia needs that info to -> > function. There are also several other errors I haven't looked at. -> They -> > could be in another function, but they cause rpmdrake to not work. -> > -> > I've run into several other probs, but don't know if they're -> Mandrake -> > being hosed or me not understanding how Mandrake's setup. -> > -> > Not having apt-get is definitely broken. OTOH one of the GUI tools -> claims -> > to support using debs, so maybe I can do a Mandrake->debian -> conversion :). -> > -> > ciao, -> > -> > der.hans -> > -> > [1] wget -O /local/path/and/file.cz2 -> http://somehost.domain/some/path/ -> > with ../base/hdlist.cz2 -> > -> > "http://somehost.domain/some/path/ with -> ../base/hdlist.cz2" is not a -> valid -> > URL. Also they don't check that "http://somehost.domain/some/path/" -> has a -> > trailing slash. -> > -> > -- -> > # der.hans@LuftHans.com home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.Opnix.com -> > # HERE LIES LESTER MOORE -> > # SHOT 4 TIMES WITH A .44 -> > # NO LES -> > # NO MOORE -> > # -- tombstone, in Tombstone, AZ -> > -> > -> > ________________________________________________ -> > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail -> doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. -> > -> > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -> -> -> ________________________________________________ -> See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your -> mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape -> to write mail. -> -> Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us -> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss ->