RE: [TCLUG:22353] Slackware/Caldera/Installfest/kPPP

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

Is anyone bringing Mandrake to the installfest?  

From what I've found, Mandrake has the most complete setup for all of the
window managers that get installed, everything is in the menus already, and
you can choose from about 8 different window managers on login.

Plus, it has a ton of goodies that don't normally come with other distros.
nmap, aterm (modified rxvt that has all the features of Eterm and a small
memory footprint), colorized gcc so compile errors and warnings are
highlighted, vi with syntax highlighting, and a ton of other cool things.
Mandrake was originally based off Redhat, but they've since gone their own
way.  The install is nicer than Redhat's, in fact, on install it will
download and install crypto packages like OpenSSH, OpenSSL libs, apache with
mod_ssl, cryptographic kernel extensions, and other stuff (you have to
choose Expert install for this).  You can also install ReiserFS on install
and format partitions with it, except it won't set up your initrd to load
the ReiserFS module on boot, so your /boot and / still have to be ext2.

I still use Redhat on servers, but mostly because Dell sucks and ships their
servers with proprietary RAID cards and they only have a module disk for
Redhat.  For the last year or so, I've been using Mandrake for a general
desktop machine and it works excellent.

Jay  



-----Original Message-----
From: Blake [mailto:minibiker@prontomail.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 10:18 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: [TCLUG:22353] Slackware/Caldera/Installfest/kPPP


Someone bring a copy of Slackware and RedHat to the installfest, I need a
(burned) copy of 
both...Caldera didnt come with minicom, and kPPP doesnt dial right. Someone
told me that 
Slack comes with minicom.
Heres a log of what kPPP does:

ATZ ;turn on modem
OK ;response from modem
ATDT6122527007  ;dial mr.net
OK  ;response from modem

After that, kPPP insists on sitting there and pooping on itself...(I have an
external modem btw) 
-Blake (Pizza is Linux compatable)

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