[Techtalk] New to the list

[April]

Just a dissenting opinion. :)  As a newbie, Mandrake drove me three 
kinds of nuts.  I had Windows-like problems with "It doesn't work and no 
one will ever know why" situations.  I was actually relieved when I 
tried Debian...  Doing anything was harder, but dealing with problems 
was easier.

Andrew wrote:

>	 Well now, did I hear the word *Mandrake*?  (-:
>	And May I kindly ask... of the person who suggested Gentoo to a
>nubie... Are you kidding???  (-: ( And I think you were.(-: )
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>	OK Now down to business. Mandrake is the best. (period)  Well the best
>for a person coming over from windows I think. I've never used windows!
> 	I had a wise person suggest to me stick with one distro and
>learn it well, I believe Mandrake is the easiest once you recognise the
>need to stick with Mandrake provided packages. Mandrake is a RPM based
>distribution like RedHat and SuSe and an experienced person can use both
>RedHat's and SuSe's rpm's (Packages/programs), but don't bother.
>Mandrake has by far the largest collection of packages tested to work
>with Mandrake there are almost Four thousand Mandrake tested packages.
>	The most important tool for administering MDK is URPMI on the CL
>(command line) or  in the GUI go to  Mandrake Control Center ->Software
>Management. Both of these do the same thing, I have had better luck
>using urpmi.  It is practically the only CL program I use in Mandrake.
>Below are several sources for learning administration of Mandrake. 
>	As for equivalent packages/programs M$ to Linux there are several web
>pages devoted to that. Sorry I don't have them on hand. 
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>The most basic trick and this may be all you need to know is to remove
>the old list of packages called 'media" before installing new. 
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>Second 'trick' to Mandrake is called PLF or Penguin Liberation Front
>http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/  Here you will find all necessary packages to
>do anything with a mandrake box that M$ can do, but much more safely
>and with much greater stability. Follow the directions closely for
>the version of Mandrake you have, pick a mirror close to you they are
>pretty much the same. 
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>Learn this and almost everything is point and click from there. Honest.
>	All the software that anyone could want(-:
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>URPMI - Exposed--> http://uug.byu.edu/articles.php?article=63
>Garrick/urpmifaq-->http://speculation.org/garrick/urpmifaq.txt
>The urpmi
>tools.-->http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi-howto/tools.ht
>ml#urpmi.update
>TWiki-Main-UsingUrpmi-->http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/eggnbacon/docs/urpmi
>-howto/tools.html#urpmi.update
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>Andrew
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>On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:01:26 -0800
>litlone <litlone at cox.net> wrote:
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>>Hello,
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>>Usually Net etiquette says I should introduce myself when I come to a
>>new 
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>>I love the graphics programs that windows offers and am hesitant to
>>switch my system over to linux because of this alone. He has explained
>>that I can run a windows interface and that is all well and good
>>except the windows interface can't exactly tell you which programs
>>will run and which ones won't.
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