[luau] Harsh review of RH 8

[Don Brown]

To second that, every time I think I've grown up and moved beyond
Mandrake, I come back.  MDK 9 really impressed me by configuring good
menus for all window managers for one.  I run mostly SuSE w/ IceWM and
their menus were anemic.  Of course I hacked up MDK's menu first thing, but it
was nice to simply move and delete stuff rather than having to add
everything searching for icons.

I don't know if RH does this as I was less than impressed by RH 7.3  I
like config tools like YaST and the MDK control center.  I don't mind
screwing w/ config files on my server, but my desktop should be simple and
productive.

Don

On 30 Sep 2002, Eric Hattemer wrote:

> I agree 100%.  Mandrake 9 is sweet.  RH is pretty frustrating
> sometimes.  Everything that I found wrong in RH works beautifully in
> mandrake.  I think one reason for this is the difference in their beta
> mailing lists.  I was a member of both.  The mdk guys are so nice and
> they fix problems like nothing.  I told them that evolution freaks out
> in security level 4 or 5.  One guy emailed me back saying that I
> shouldn't be running it in security level 4 or 5 (server class
> machine).  So I thought that was the end of it.  Then within a week (I
> think it was the next day), he said he fixed it.  That was amazing.  RH
> limbo guys tend to just refuse to fix stuff or defer it to the company
> that provides the program.  The mandrake control center is really great,
> and the start menu is well organized (the "what to do" section feels a
> little dumbed down winXP-ish, but it actually does help the
> organization).  Really, if all you've been using is redhat, you should
> certainly try mandrake.  Its sweet.  I was never this excited about
> redhat.  One of the cooler functions is that you can set up multiple
> mirrors for the urpmi command (similar to up2date).  Its a bit tricky,
> but well worth the trouble.
>
> -Eric Hattemer
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