[luau] Re: LUAU digest, Vol 1 #927 - 6 msgs

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

maddog wrote:

>Wayne,
>
>AS far as I can see so far in looking at desktop replacements for Windoze
>Mandrake comes closest to having the best package for current Windoze users.
>It seems to be the easiest to transition from MS to Linux. I have tested Red
>Hat and Suse as well as Lindows, Lycoris and a few others.
>
>Just my $0.00002
>  
>
Thanks for the suggestion.  Mandrake has several distinct advantages 
over RedHat.  But for business considerations, I would consider RedHat a 
safer choice.  Fedora (especially its "unofficial" repository) reminds 
me many of the conditions (and the enthusiastic community supports) why 
Mandrake branched out from RedHat.  After Novell purchased SuSE, 
would-be Linux sysadms now probably have to familiarize themselves also 
with SuSE.   However, to me, the combination of Fedora and RHEL may 
present the optimum migration path (i.e., satisfying both the 
enthusiasts and, eventually, the corporate entities).

B/c our resources (on the island) are extremely limited, if any at all, 
I would really like to see ourselves concentrated on Fedora.  Of course, 
I am sure many Mandrake users could present equally convincing arguments 
for their favorite Linux distro.

BTW, I remember not too long ago, our City's computer system had to be 
shut down b/c of certain computer virus (or virii).  Can anyone tell me 
around what time frame this happened? And by what virus?  Thanks a whole 
bunch.  wayne (Honolulu runs on Windows 2000 and our system adms guard 
Microsoft's interest more forcefully than gestapos.)