[olug] Help me select a distrob

[Will Langford]

As an experiment, put a new version of the community Mandriva on a system to
act as a server.

It was missing libraries like readline, there were no development packages
for it, etc.  Making postgres a bit ugly to use heh.

Although I imagine it does fine as a desktop distro, I wouldn't suggest it
for anything more "interesting".

-Will



On 4/18/06, Jake Churchill <jachurchill at cox.net> wrote:
>
> I used to use Mandriva and I'd definitely chose that over FC but I've
> since switched to OpenSuse which like Mandrive requires installing some
> 3rd party software but I really like it the best.
>
> Eric Lusk wrote:
> > Mandriva is good, but if you're getting the free
> > version, you'll want to install some additional
> > packages that are left out, as compared to the Club
> > version.
> > Most of the items left out are still available for
> > download, and pretty often as .rpm files.
> > There is a Mandriva community site run by Mandriva,
> > but I believe that parts of that are restricted to
> > Club members, possibly more now than the last time I
> > was there.  But I usually get my support on a
> > per-program basis, so I haven't had to use them for a
> > while...
> >
> > --- Nick Veys <psylence519 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> It may be helpful for you to list out a few of your
> >> criteria you used
> >> to narrow your search.  To be honest, FC5 seemed a
> >> little half-baked
> >> at release time, though I know they have fixed many
> >> of the release
> >> issues.
> >>
> >> On 4/17/06, Charles Bird <thebirdman at operamail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> either one is a pretty safe bet.
> >>>
> >>> I think there is alot more helpful users on FC5
> >>>
> >> than Mandriva. Having help is perhaps the most
> >> important thing when fresh into it.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Jon H. Larsen" <relayer at levania.org>
> >>>> To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [olug] Help me select a distrob
> >>>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:29:23 -0500 (CDT)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, HAB Boy wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:28:23 +0300
> >>>>> From: HAB Boy <haobboy at gmail.com>
> >>>>> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group
> >>>>>
> >> <olug at olug.org>
> >>
> >>>>> To: olug at olug.org
> >>>>> Subject: [olug] Help me select a distrob
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Guys/Gals,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have done a lot of search to select a distro
> >>>>>
> >> to switch from Win to
> >>
> >>>>> Linux. Finally, I came up to two distros
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. Mandriva (Mandrake)
> >>>>> 2. Fedora Core 5
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Can any of you help me making a choice and may
> >>>>>
> >> be give me some of the
> >>
> >>>>> pros and cons of both based on experience
> >>>>>
> >>>>> HAB
> >>>>>
> >>>> Out of your list, I would choose Fedora Core 5.
> >>>>
> >> Adding the packages to
> >>
> >>>> Play DVDs, Movies and MP3s is pretty easy using
> >>>>
> >> yum or yumex, and I
> >>
> >>>> haven't found a format I can't play yet.  Plus,
> >>>>
> >> FC5 is very current, as
> >>
> >>>> it has the latest versions of Gnome and KDE to
> >>>>
> >> choose from.
> >>
> >>>> Jon L.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
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