Garrett Ellis wrote:
> 
> Mandrake 8.0 is decent imo. We use it here in the office as a Samba machine
> and it's been almost reliable. So far in 3 weeks it has hard-locked up
> twice, so it's definitely doing better than Windows* could ever hope to. I
> personally dislike it because 1) it's install is very dumbed down and not
> as detailed as I would like, 2) it is not Debian;) , and 3) a basic default
> install of it has locked up 3 times on a machine that otherwise doesn't
> lock up.
> 
> By far, I have had the most luck with Debian (just upg'd to 2.2r3, 2.4.5)
> in stability, security, and tolerability. In further response to what you
> said about Redhat, buggy Redhat distributions ceased to surprise me after
> 5.2 or so.
They are a commercial outfit - newest stuff, most features, ram it out
the door with a new version number to make a sale, etc. Only difference
from other nameless OSes is that it is Open Source which gives you
freedom.

Eric R.