[Techtalk] Considering an OS change
Andrea Landaker
qirien at icecavern.net
Sat Apr 19 11:47:26 EST 2003
> As much as I like ^H^H^H^H love Slackware, I find that I have less time to
> manage it and was thinking of running an easier OS for my router pc and
> maybe the desktop and also to see Linux done differently. I was pondering
> Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9.1. I guess I was wondering if there were things
> that I should know beforehand that will make a switchover easier. I have
> always been iffy on using Mandrake as a server. Are my feelings
> irrational?
Well, we use Mandrake 9.1 here for our personal boxes, our firewall, DNS, web,
and mail servers. I really really really love urpmi (similar to apt-get or
up2date) -- there's just something so neat about "What? I didn't install the
GIMP? OK, 'urpmi gimp'". We've found it easy to install and update, though
I'm sure other distros would work well for you, too. :-) We haven't had any
problems running Mandrake as a server, either.
--
Andrea Landaker
http://www.icecavern.net/~qirien/
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