[TriLUG] installfest server - something's got to give

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Wed May 1 14:37:22 EDT 2002


On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 14:19, Mark Johnson wrote:

> Huh? 
> 
> Mandrake & Debian are universes apart. 

Not true!
 
> rpms vs. debs, apt vs yup/apt-rpm (whatever it's called) -- giant
> difference here. 

Just different flavors of packaging.  apt and urpi are very similar.

> And the SGML/XML setups are completely different. This matters if you
> wanna do, say, docbook. (OTOH, they'll soon merge under LSB-XML/SGML,
> but that's another story.)

You may be correct here, but this is just a small part of a system
setup.

> Note that I'm _not_ claiming one is better than the other. I'm only
> pointing out that they're far more different than they are similar.

Mandrake uses the Debian menu system, the Debian alternatives system,
and the Debian library naming conventions.  In my mind this makes
it a lot more like Debian than you suggest.

I think Mandrake, however, is much easier to use than Debian, especially
if you're new to linux.  Even with that, though it's still great for
those who have been with linux for years and years (I've been running
linux since 1994).  I run Mandrake on all my home systems and my
internet server.  Mandrake goes to great lengths to integrate everything
together into a comprehensive package.  It also goes to great
pains to give the presentation that "extra touch".  I highly
recommend it for both desktop and server use.

Tanner
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