Mandrake Linux 10

Just acquired this, absolutely flawless install. It picked up all my hardware, and I was up and running, configured and surfing the net in 52 minutes. I like it

BTW, if anyone wants to pay postage I have a release of Mandrake 9.1 and Redhat 9.0 going spare.

 

id pay, but since you live in the UK, i think it wold just be easier to dl the iso images. i just got a box and am installing suse 8.2 on it, thats another good easy distro

 

Manchester UK, which one do you want

Sorry didn't read rest of post, I can't see it costing more than a couple of dollars, do you want one of them

 

depends, what is redhat on now?

 

9.0 is the last release, it's called Fedora now

 

oh, so thats what fedora core is....tell ya what, let me gather a few bucks, and ill pm you about the red hat

 

That's ok, call it a favour from one geek to another

 

Hey g11gam3sh,
I was just wondering...
Are you planning on joining in on the "Mandrake Club" or whatever they call it? Do you think that its worth the $60 for the updates and such? That is how it goes with Mandrake, huh?

Oh, and yes, the hardware detection on linux is something else, isn't it? No probs nowadays

I just ordered "Damn Small Linux" distro - (no joke - that's the name) tonight for my ThinkPad 385ED. Its 333MHz, 2GB,
I gotta get something lightweight for it...
Hope it works.

Congrats on the good install!

 

My biggest beef with Linux is how sometimes a newer version won't detect or have good drivers where a previous version would.

Too many times have I had a newer version not work with my sound card, or modem, or nic, and yet if I pop in an old version, it works like a charm.

And yes, I mean the same distro each time.

 

I have read about that happening. I don't know if one could work around that sort of thing or not.

I did have a SUsE live cd fail when it came to detecting my Epson Stylus C82 inkjet printer.
A site caught my eye tonight. A link from our "sister site" of sorts-- Linux Compatible-- had a "how to install Gentoo" tute on it. It looks interesting... like you compile the whole business from the "get-go". My interest is piqued.

How in the heck do you guys get these quote things to reference the user who originally made the statement? I can't seem to work it right for anything!