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Bob and I go round and round all the time about Mandrake. I personally don't like it, as a server it let me down and got hacked and numerous times it embarrassed me by doing goofy shit at clients, etc. RedHat is rock solid and has never let me down, ever. and RedHat 9 is really really slick and I used to wonder why RH was favoring Gnome, now after using Gnome I can see why, it ROCKS! I would never use KDE again, too many crashes, etc and it was slow. Same machine with Gnome, totally different in performance. As far as what packages, I always install the devel stuff because you never know when you want to add stuff, etc. Anyway, Mandrake 8.1 was really clunky compared to the new stuff. It would be a hell of alot less time to just redo that box.<BR>
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 18:33, scott wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#737373" SIZE="3"><I>At the meeting Bob made the comment, " I hate working on a machine I didn't install - I can't even use strings." <BR>
I also didn't have dhcp. IIRC, I didn't install anything from the Development division because I'm not a software developer. <BR>
So apparently I don't even have a kernel compiler. I just followed the choices in a Mandrake install walkthrough <BR>
I found some where, so I'm probably lacking on administrative and search tools.<BR>
I was wondering if Bob or anyone else would care to post a list of recommended rpms for stand alone desktop<BR>
user's box running KDE. I do also have some Gnome apps in, but they run in KDE. <BR>
Then I could find the common denominators. <BR>
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Scott
Kein Mitleid Für MicroSoft.
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