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Code Monkey
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Code Monkey
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Between Mandrake 9.2 and Suse 9.0 (which I believe are the most current versions), what would you recommend to someone who will be transitioning away from Red Hat? All opinions and personal experience welcome.
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Addict
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Addict
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I've always used redhat and mandrake here at home, and I really like the latest mandrake. I tried SuSE, but it wasn't version 9, so I can't comment on that as much.
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Code Monkey
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Code Monkey
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I ordered Mandrake 9.2 from cheapiso.com for about four dollars, so I know I'll give that a shot at least. I also ordered Slackware 9.1, but I believe that will be over my head. Is it true that Mandrake has good automatic updates? I heard thay it even updates your fonts with Windows fonts.
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Old Hand
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Old Hand
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Only updates NOT to do automatically with Mandrake are kernel ones..Everything else is pretty seemless.. I downloaded 9.2 and it runs pretty smoothly.. I even got PostFix and DNS to work out of the iso..
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Journeyman
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Journeyman
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I have redhat 9.0 running on about a dozen servers but with the changes with redhat, and Novell buying Suse I decided to give Suse a try since I have 5 Novell servers running also. It should be here today so I am anxious to give it a try. Will keep you posted.
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Journeyman
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Journeyman
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I just finished installing SuSe Pro V 9.0 after using Redhat for years I have to say its different, mostly directory structure. In Redhat the webpage are in /var/www/html. In SuSe they are in /srv/www/htdocs once I got past these few differences things went pretty good. I have still got to figure out how to get secure ftp and secure telnet to work, SuSe wont let me in with cuteftp or putty. Once I get past this I would say my site is back to normal. I have it running on my weather site at http://alawx.com for the next few day it may be up and down as I tinker with it 
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Code Monkey
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Code Monkey
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I'm giving Mandrake 9.2 a whirl at the moment. I was also going to try Slackware 9.1, but their is no driver for my USB keyboard, so the installation never got started. And stupidly enough, there are no PS/2 ports on the motherboard! WTF? Anyhow, I'm also going to try out SuSE 9.0 soon
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