Mandrake 7.1 or Suse 7.0

[Savage3]

Ok In A Day Or Two I Can Get A Linux Os But I Need To Know Whats Better The Mandrake 7.1 Or The Suse 7.0

And Which Will Support My Specs:

Windows ME
AMD 1000Mhz
128 SD Ram
30Gig Ultra DMA ATA100 HDD
20Gig Ultra DMA ATA100 HDD
Creative Geforce2 Ultra 64Mb
Creative Sound Blaster Live
RICOH MP7080A CD-R/RW
Pioneer DVD-Rom
Dimond Data 50X CD-Rom
Iomega Zip 100
Asus A7V Mother Borad
Realtek RTL8138 PCI Fast Ethernet Card
Swann Smart2 56k Ext Modem

Thanks For For Help

[MBMarduk]

Why not try'em both? Oh...WAIT! Did you say MDK 7.1?

Well, I haven't used MDK, but judging from the TONS of posts with probs from newbies, I'd guess 7.1 is pretty buggy. Try 7.2 instead.

I use SuSE so I know It's a very good beginners/intermediate distro. And it's a lot better thought out than MDK :)

So if the only MDK you can get is 7.1, take SuSE.
If you can get MDK 7.2 It's YOUR choice tho.
-Mike

[mairving]

I personally like Mandrake better. It has the easiest setup of any distro. It generally is on the cutting edge of everything. SUSE is the only distro that I have ever installed that the default language was German. Of course, you can pick English.

I think the reason that you see a lot more posts about Mandrake 7.1 is because a lot more people are using it than SUSE.

I believe that there is also a version of SUSE that runs entirely off of the CD. Haven't tried that one yet.

[ 02 March 2001: Message edited by: mairving ]

[bdg1983]

:cool: SuSE :cool:

I'm using SuSE 7.0 and I warmly recommend it. It's pretty easy to install and configure, even for newbies. And I've heard that SuSE 7.1 has some improvements, and its setup tool YaST2 is getting better and better.

[SCuSI]

If you can get your hands on SuSE 7.1 I wholeheartedly recommend it. Yast 2 is now a full featured administrative tool that you can now use without running a GUI.Every piece of hardware worked right out of the box.7.0 of SuSE was good also. I personally had alot of trouble getting MDK 7.2 to work for me but that just my experiences. Traditionally I always considered MDK to be a desktop oriented distribution and SuSE a server grade distribution but I think SuSE covered all the bases.
SuSE 7.0 has been running for 50 days as my internt firewall,MP3 server, and file server with out a hiccup. SuSE 7.1 is on my workstation computer surfing the net, playing MP3s and DVDs, and printing to my Epson Stylus Photo 700 in full, brilliant color. Its just waiting for me to install Unreal and Quake3 so we can get our frag on.

[tallulah]

Mandrake 7.2, if you can get it, but 7.1 will do! I don't know if SuSE 7 has support for UDMA 100. I just installed SuSE, thinking I wanted to use it instead of Mandrake. The version of Lilo that came with SuSE 7 did not play nicely with my big hard drives, so I am booting it from a floppy. I much prefer Mandrake to SuSE. Mandrake's hardware support is wonderful!

[SCuSI]

Most distributions won't support hardware that doesn't exist yet. Mdk 7.0 & 7.1 and SuSE 6.4 & 7.0 didn't recognize a UDMA controller natively while Mdk 7.2 and SuSE 7.1 will. Lilo can be updated in SuSE 7.0 via ftp in yast to a recent version that can see past the cylinder limit. To run Drake-update to update Lilo in 7.1 you must first update Drake-update?!? The learning curve for YAST is a little steep at first especially if you are coming from Linuxconf but it is a lot more flexible and tons more reliable. I am looking forward to trying the new Mandrake Beta 8.0.

[r@nd0m @cce$]

All I can tell you is that if you care about stability pick SuSE. I have found the X server to be highly unstable in Mandrake as compared to SuSE and I've used 'Drake 6.5 up to 7.1
As for SuSE, I've used SuSE since version 6.3