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On 7/3/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for that. When I first decided to try Linux I had a look at > several, including Redhat and Suse, and finally settled on Mandrake > (version 7 back then if I remember correctly.) I have stuck with > Mandrake/Mandriva ever since, mainly I suppose because I have got to > know it well over the years and I am comfortable with it. This is similar to how i started. I had a mandrake 6.2 i believe system running as the mail and samba server at work. I think this was going for nearly 5 years (can it really be that long?). I also used mandrake at home and tried various versions. > > No doubt lug members all have their own favourites, but I have only one > computer, so I had to choose one and stick with it. So whatever advice > or suggestions I am given I have to go with it using Mandriva2006. No > better or worse than many others I suppose. > After a number of boched upgrades where i was left with an unusable system, prehapse my fault for following the devel branch when this is really not stable, i finally switched to debian and havent looked back since. The only think i will say is that mandrake does have a package managment system so try to use it to install packages where possible. Use urpmi for dependency tracking instead of rpm (its a rpm wrapper) and try to find out where the packages expect config files etc and use those locations. This makes it easier to upgrade in the future and makes it easier to ask for help from others with the same distro if things are where they are suspose to be. Also try to avoid building from source especialy if a package is avaiable, as again keeping upto date is then entirely on you. Regards Robin -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html