COMPARING DISTRO info

[crash3m at comcast.net]

One of the main objectives for Mandrake is ease of use...which would be
geared towards the 'average' user.

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:49:04 -0500
"Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at opus1.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <crash3m at comcast.net>
> 
> > > I ran across this series of articles this morning.  I
> > > seem to remember that someone was looking for this
> > > exact kind of comparison.
> 
> > > http://www.extremetech.com/category2/1,3971,540430,00.asp
> 
> Yeah, looking for shoot-offs between Mandrake 9.0 and RedHat 8.0,
> particularly as RH8 is being touted as the
> "ready-for-the-average-user-desktop" release.  Does M9 target the same
> market, and if so, which is a better release for the non-coding
> "average" user?
> I don't think this really answers those questions, but it looks like a
> good series.
> 
> 
> > I must have missed that email...  There is a great site for checking
> > out distro's.  Its probably not nearly as in depth as the article
> > might be but it does cover plenty of distro's.
> > http://www.distrowatch.com
> > Theyt ell of past releases, whether or not there are free downloads,
> > default desktops, package management system, office suites,
> > architecture suport, FS types, multilingual, package versions...
> 
> Lots of hard info, but no qualitative evaluations.  Moderately useful.
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