[TriLUG] No More Consumer Red Hat?

[Jon Carnes]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 21:49, Greg Brown wrote:
> How about putting together a "migrating to Mandrake" tip sheet for the 
> LUG.  

There really isn't much to it.  You'll have to do less configuration as
more apps and services will simply work out of the box (including many
plug-ins *and* IPSec).

> Are there any oddities?

Mandrakes MSEC is either very cool or a royal PITA... That's a kernel
based security tool that one of my clients likes.  It's well documented
though, and actually fairly sane at keeping your wild-and-free servers
under *your* control.

>   What is the supported method to keep 
> Mandrake up to date?
>   Does it support yum, or something like that?

Join the Mandrake club.  The cost is *very* cheap. Also you can simply
use urpmi:
http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/docs/howtourpmi.html

You've heard folks talk about it. Now YOU can experience it for
yourself!

>   
> What else can I expect moving from RH 9 to Mandrake 9.x?

A simpler life, a prettier desktop, the kind of bliss that normally only
comes with years of staring at your navel.

>   I read 
> something on slashdot about Mandrake having screen-saver based adverts? 

Really?  Was he selling something like a bridge?  Did he tell you: No
new taxes? Perhaps he invented the internet?

>   Is this the case?  

No.

> I'll happily continue to pay a reasonable price for 
> boxed set software if the price is reasonable but I don't want adverts 
> on my screen.

You'll only find those on Mandrake if you put them there.  I certainly
don't have any on mine.

> 
> I'm reading the RH threads regarding Fedora/RH 10/whatever it is and 
> what I'm reading, I think, is "core" upgrades every four months or do 
> and the actual software will be supported for between six and nine 
> months.  That's not going to work for me.

Dude, relax.  The only difference you are going to notice is the name
change.  you'll buy Red Hat Workstation (no specified version).  It will
work just like RH version X.2.  Stable, well supported and Open Source
(as always!).

You can even use it to drive your servers - though Management will frown
at your using "workstation" software on your key infrastructure
servers...  those darn clever Red Hat Marketeers!
> 
> Looking for options,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> >>
> >
> > Or better yet, support TriLUG, use Mandrake. ;-)

Is there a special Mandrake Club membership that LUG's can purchase?

> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner