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[Andrew]

> o> The funny thing is that every couple of days Drew has the same
> types of issues and we hear all about them in IRC.
> Kathryn
	Kathryn... You Told! (-:
	Well yes I have had those mysterious issues and Google found people
with the answers eventually. Many if not most came due to my using
non-mandrake package. I would guess that holds true with the same
issues,  if you use Slackware, SuSe ect and do not use their tested
packages.  So settle on a distro and get to know it, before wandering.
	Debian has "apt" and it is a great package management 
system and very similar to Mandrakes "urpmi". I think "apt" came first?
 Mostly underneath the package management systems  Linux is the same,
the bigest difference is in how, in the GUI, the options/commands are
presented. And we are all talking about administering the system, the
box. No Mater which package management you choose or which distro, (Mdk,
SuSe,RedHat, rpm based or Libranet, Menohis, Lindows, Debian based). 
When you choose the programs where most people actually get work done,
they are exactly the same. OpenOffice works the the same on all distros
as does Gimp, a very good replacement for Photoshop. (Photoshop for
Windoz will run on Linux with a program called Crossover ( Approx.
$50.)to enable it. 
	The original question was more about programs and which ones  do the
work of similar windoz programs,  there are many, many. I know that
Mandrake has almost 4 thousand programs. and once Mandrake, is
set-up,(Mandrake 10+ is absolutely wonderful) you have a large selection
of programs to choose from, programs being the things most people use to
get *work* done.  
 For the record (-:  I came with in a hair of switching to a debian
package management system by way of the Distribution, named Knoppix. I
like it. But it was to much trouble to set up my dual monitors, Mandrake
did it almost automatically.  The basic issue is stick to one and learn
it. The programs are the same. The method of putting the programs on the
computer is different. 

Hey Great, more sources of info:
> > www.linuxgazette.com and from googling for things that I
> > encountered.
>www.linuxgazette.net (they split a while ago)


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	Andrew

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