On Thursday 26 September 2002 8:05 pm, Michael Knee wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm just getting started with Open Source, although I have several years
> experioence with Solaris and HP-UX.  What does the group think are the
> strengths and weaknesses of the various distibutions (Red Hat, Mandrake,
> SuSE)?
>
> Michael knee

Redhat works wonderful with RPM's.  However it doesn't detect a windows XP 
installation and you have to add it to lilo if you ever want to boot in to 
windows XP.  The menu's seems to be scattered about and no organization to 
anything.  However,  Monday I believe 8.0 will be released.

Mandrake is a good distro,  but they didn't include KDE 3.0 in there 8.2 
release.  But 9.0 is out now.  I have no visted that one.

SuSE seems to have the best organized distro with everything in yast2.  Basic 
Networking, Advanced Networking, and more.  You can even turn DMA on or off 
for each device in Yast2. Currently 8.0, however,  I believe next week they 
are releasing 8.1.


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