Quote Originally Posted by gowator
This was posted a while back on the Mandrakeusers forum.

You could loose a whole day on that site, its got so much info....
Really cool site !!!

p.s Superstoned.... have I seen you there????
or are you exclusive to the .nl group
I'm exclusive

of course

But if I need more info, I browse the international mandrake users fora...

And I'm considdering a turn-back to debian... not sure, though.
I'm convinced their package management is better, although urpmi is very good indeed. And I esp miss the 'testing' branche - its like Mandrake only has stable (now 9.2) and unstable (cooker). The tools for Mandrake, and its standard-configuration are better than debian, but using Knoppix, debian is put on your system quite well configured, too. And it is easier to keep up-to-date than mandrake -> unless you use the cooker, (which is very unstable) you have to download & re-install (well, update) a new mandrake-release to upgrade the system with mandy.

And debian has more packages available.

And a .deb always works, while a .rpm can be made for mandrake 8.2 (so it might not work properly) or for suse or for alt-linux or for fedora etc etc - and its very 'random' - sometimes they work, sometimes not.

And I dislike some of mandrake's alterations of the standard KDE installation - well, the mandrakemenu messes things up for me, and you HAVE to use it - unless you want to lose alot programs, which only install in the mandrake-menu and not in the standard KDE menu... adding manually can be a pain.

But Mandrake is more easy on other points, especially but not limited to the installation and configuration.

Damn, if ARK-linux was debian-based, I'd know what to choose...