[techtalk] SuSE -> Mandrake?

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Linda,
  Just an opinion not really an answer. Why go with Mandrake? Yeah the
kernel is optimized for Pentium and greater, this is something you could
do for yourself. It's not to hard and if you have the docs in front of you
it makes it a little easier.
  Mandrake, again just my opinion, is the Microsoft of Linux. Yeah they've
got 'pretty'graphical config utils, but they release products that are
almost completely broken. Bad sym links, incorrect dep's, services not
ready to run 'out of the box' etc. Plus their supposed compatibility with
RH is just that, supposed. I would recomend RH, Debian, Caldera before I
would Mandrake. Even Slack which is still the hackers linux.
My $.02.
Harry

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:

> I'm thinking I'd like to convert my mail server
> and laptop from SuSE to Mandrake.  Mandrake has better/easier to use
> configuration (chkconfig) and security settings/options.  It's also
> compiled for 586's and above, yielding speed improvements.
> 
> So the big question is how do I do it.  I have partitions /tmp, /var, /home
> (/usr/src is a softlink to inside /home), /boot and /.  
> 
> So it seems I have to worry primarily about "/" and "/var".
> 
> I sorta dread the idea of re-setting back up the mail stuff and host
> configuration, but I'm sorta thinking I may have to scratch / and /var
> because even an upgrade from RH61 (supposedly compatible) to MDK 7.0 resulted
> in alot of services not coming up due to errors (including networking).  
> Fortunately that was on a scratch machine, so I could just mkfs and 
> start over; icky idea, though, on my mail, source and build machine.
> 
> I think one thing that pissed my off about SuSE was it's non-standard
> setup stuff -- putting all the scripts under /sbin/rc.d instead of in
> /etc.  But then, to make it worse, they have a README about their startup
> philosophy that talked about 'init' being the *father* of all processes.
> I've always called it the parent process -- assigning a gender to a process
> just seems downright silly -- processes use fission to reproduce.  It's 
> an asexual process.  Anyway, the father thing bugged me. 
> 
> Ideas on conversion?  There is a linux filesystem hierarchy standard and
> I'll just bet SuSE doesn't conform.
> 
> thanks,
> -linda
> 
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