Re: [TCLUG:6525] redhat vs mandrake

["Mike Glaser" <jurupari@geocities.com>]

> Caldera 2.2
> ===========
> Very cool GUI install program. This distro is very simple to install for a
> Windows user because the official version includes a Caldera edition of
> Partition Magic. It also includes WP8 and StarOffice. However, I didn't
> really like it. <flamebait>I kind of like linuxconf for certain
> things.</flambebait> Caldera's COAS program for graphically managing your
> system is really bad. It isn't complete and doesn't seem to work very
> well.

Like Tim said, COAS doesn't work so well. It looks kind of nice, but 
when I used it to check/reconfigure networking to get my nic going 
(see my other post) it would give a Python error of some sort or 
another and crash every time.

> 
> SuSE 6.1
> ========
> In a word, enormous. Five CDs make SuSE very complete. It's the only

If I had the official version I may have had a bit more luck with it.

> 
> I've never tried Slackware or Debian. I'll probably give them a go one of
> these days.

I would like to give Debian a shot myself sometime. I have CD's for 
TurboLinux 3.0 and some version of LinuxPro but I am not sure if 
either had the 2.2 kernel so I didn't bother with either.

Mike