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Offline dezignersrepublic

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Re: Linux Mandrake 9.0 WOW!
« Reply #29 from previous page: February 18, 2003, 11:05:24 AM »
I've used redhat 7.2/7.3/8.0 gentoo, suse and mandrake and for me mandrake comes out on top everytime.  

It has loads of preconfigured window managers like blackbox and friends...

If anyone is new to linux then I'd definitely recommend mandrake, as most of the config can be performed through guis.  
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Re: Linux Mandrake 9.0 WOW!
« Reply #30 on: February 18, 2003, 12:22:20 PM »
I'm using Mandrake 9.0 on my old PII 266 laptop.

'cos it has so little memory (64MB) I am using Blackbox as the window manager... which is actually quite neat and certainly doesn't use the resources that KDE or Gnome2 would. I will stick with it even when the memory upgrade arrives for the laptop.

It found my Xircom PCMCIA ethernet card without a problem though, and networking works great. Audio, however, doesn't work at all. Booting takes ages, but that is probably due to the useless old laptop hard drive than anything else.

I have also used SUSE 8, which is also a very solid distribution.

One day I will upgrade this 18 month old install of Mandrake 8.1 to something else ... possibly Mandrake 9.1 which should be out soon.