[techtalk] SuSE -> Mandrake?

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

You know Linda,
  You're absolutely right. I did not make an attempt to answer the
question which defeated the purpose of asking. Sorry about that. I guess
that one of the most important things to start with is the general
differences in configs. Where are they stored. Ie -> is something like
mgetty stored in /etc/mgetty on MD and /usr/local/mgetty on Suse. It could
potentially get very confusing and I would probably suggest backing up the
current Suse box, installing from scratch the MD system and then going in
by hand and replacing configs and libs where they need to go. Hopefully
there will be only slight differences between the two. If I can offer any
more help pls. let me know. I didn't want to cause a 'flame or holy war' I
just didn't want someone to fire up Mandrake and not realize what possible
problems could occur.
Regards,
Harry

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Linda Walsh wrote:

> 
> > My gcc doesn't seem to support pentium optimisations, but compiling a small
> > test program for a 486 versus 386 increased the size slightly. Are you sure
> > 686 optimized binaries get smaller?
> ---
> 	I picked the /usr/X11R6/bin directory for my test. There were 384
> files that both distros had in common.  208 of these were the same size.
> I added the file sizes /distro and added 1 to the smaller distro's app count.
>  My results:
> 
> MDK: 18265904, 52
> SSE: 22516638, 124
> 
> What does it mean:  SSE had more files that were smaller, but overall
> SSE's total byte count was about 20-25% greater than MDK's.  Both were
> running V11.0 of X (as shown by xdpyinfo).
> 
> 	Ya know, this is a religious war, which I didn't ask for.  I
> didn't ask for a relative comparison of distro's since each person is
> going to have their favorites.  What I asked for was how would be the
> easiest way to convert which most did not address.  Is this a case
> of "I gotta say something.  I don't know the answer to her question.
> I'll pipe up about a different topic instead and tell her why she
> shouldn't change distros so I won't have to answer the question she
> asked."  It appears the answer to my question is that there is no
> easier way than what I came up with -- which is still a relative pain.
> 
> sigh,
> -linda
> 
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