I haven't had any trouble compiling C++ proggies either. Works great for me. I selected individual packages though, and by default, some of the development stuff is not selected. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave [mailto:dcsherman at qwest.net] > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:26 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Question about Mandrake > > > 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.) > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >