I've been running Mandrake 7.2 on my ThinkPad for several months now, and it runs beautifully. I really like DrakUpdate, which automatically goes out and finds security/other updates for all installed packages, downloads and installs them automatically. I have had no problems compiling several programs for which only source was available, so apparently the "missing C++ header files" problem someone else here mentioned with 7.0 and 7.1 no longer exists. Before switching to Mandrake, I was running Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (also pretty good for a workstation user), and before that, Redhat 6.0 (awful! just like someone else said: Redhat's x.0 releases == bleeding edge == buggy). Dave At 04:24 PM 1/12/01 -0600, you wrote: >I've been running RedHat 6.2 systems and been pretty happy. But now I >feel that I should be upgrading, but RedHat 7.0 seems to have a lot of >issues. More than I want to deal with, anyway. > >So, I was thinking about switching instead to Mandrake 7.2. Any >recommendations pro or con? > >I was particularly thinking of Mandrake because it seemed like the >best way to profit from my RedHat experience, as opposed to using SuSE >or Debian. I don't mean to denigrate either of these distros, it's >just that I've gotten used to rpm's, etc. > >Also, I'm not running servers, just i86 workstations, and my >impression was that this was what Mandrake aimed at, more than other >distros that emphasized server applications. > >So, any comments? > >Thanks! >Robert >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list 01000001 00001010 01100001 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01110011 01100100 01100101 01100001 01100100 01001110 01101111 01101110 01100111 01101100 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100111 01101001 01110100 01100001 01101100 (Go figure it out.)