Linux-Mandrake

[albus]

Hey all, I have been hearing alot about Linux-Mandrake, and I read alot of good reviews and little bad reviews. But I was wandering, you say its for newbies, why is it only for us??? What about a professinal??? Also, I heard that when you run KDE2 on Mandrake its slow??? Is that ture??? :confused:

[ansivirus]

I don't consider Mandrake a distro that is "only for newbies." I think mandrake is a GREAT distro just really bloated if you do an Expert install and choose every package 1 by 1 then it's not really bloated and you have a very stable quick system. as far as kde running slow i use gnome/sawfish but when I do go into KDE it isn't slow and i'm on a Celery 333 Mhz w/ 64 MB ram and 306 MB Swap. anyway it's all opinionated what i suggest to every newbie is try them all you will find the one that suits you best don't go by others opinions because they may need/use it for different things..

-ansivirus

[n2linux]

But I was wandering, you say its for newbies, why is it only for us??? What about a professinal???

A professional can certainly use Mandrake. It contains all the tools (developmental tools, file serving, database, etc.) like the rest of the bunch.

However, it is commonly labeled as a distro that is good for newbies because Mandrake is very easy to install (like the wonderful partitioning tool during installation--DiskDrake) and it has good "out-of-the-box" hardware support (for example, it flawlessly detected my USB printer during installation).


Also, I heard that when you run KDE2 on Mandrake its slow??? Is that ture???

Yea it is a little laggy at times, but I guess it really depends on how much RAM you really have (and a fast harddrive can help too). Although I have 160MB RAM and KDE2 can run, I prefer the simplicity and nibleness of Blackbox. There are several WMs you can choose from in Mandrake.

[albus]

as I said before, you guys are great :D

[navy-linux]

I use Drake 7.2. I like it. I upgraded from 7.1. KDE is a little slower on my system. I have stayed with Mandrake because I like it, and it has given me what I needed on the install. I was not happy with how long it to for the upgrade to install though. It took about 3 hours for the upgrade to finish. But all of my hardware worked from the get-go though including my cd-burner. I did have to make an icon for my zip drive. I am getting ready to buy a copy Debian. I like the idea of apt-get though. I will install it on a spare hard drive to play with for a little while to see if I like it or not.
:rolleyes:

[linuxgrrl]

Mandrake 7.2 runs great for me. If your goal is to have working hardware right away, Mandrake is an excellent choice. If your goal is to mainly use your machine, rather than to tinker with it, Mandrake is still a great choice. It is one of the distros I use, and I like it a lot. Hardware Support!

[plasmid]

I must concur, mandrake is great. I am playing around with debian, and it can be a nightmare at times. people say all these wonderful things about it, but it is so tricky to get everything installed right compared to mandrake. Some hardcore users may scoff, but I think mandrake (and hedhat) use a model that will allow linux to really spread to more homes...and the more the merrier IMO.

-plasmid

[ColdPack]

Originally posted by plasmid:
I must concur, mandrake is great. I am playing around with debian, and it can be a nightmare at times. people say all these wonderful things about it, but it is so tricky to get everything installed right compared to mandrake. Some hardcore users may scoff, but I think mandrake (and hedhat) use a model that will allow linux to really spread to more homes...and the more the merrier IMO.

-plasmid

But if you're looking for the stability of Debian and the power of Debian and configurability of Debian and the so on of Debian but a better installer and such, you can always try Storm (which may be going bye-bye -- too bad) or Libranet or , coming soon, Progeny Debian, which is already a wonderful thing. It's still beta, though, and does have a great many bugs to work out but it's running VERY well on my machine at home at the moment. Remeber, it is BETA and there are a number of things that can go wrong with it. If you think you want to try out this BETA release of Progeny, read ALL of the README notes so you know what you're getting yourself into.
That said, Progeny is showing that Debian just might be what many are looking for... a good install, a very stable system and apt-get! :)