Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 22, 2006 09:51 PM
PS: I started Linux on Mandrake 8.0, been using the community edition ever since. I'm looking elsewhere now.
As a former Mandrake user since 7.2 and a Silver Mandrake Club member let me reccommend Debian.
1) it is as easy to install as any Mandrake installation (either with Sarge or Kanotix).
2) DEBs are far, far, far superior to RPMs
3) Apt-get and/or Synaptic are better than anything Mandrake has ever produced
4) you get a much larger choice of applications (over 18000+ according to my last apt-get update check)
5) Debian is super stable and secure and runs much faster (in particular on older hardware)
6) the Debian community is fantastic. The former Mandrake users and Debian newbie that I am got tons of friendly and competent help on the many Debian mailing lists or IRC (the list is absolutely huge) and there is no need to spend your money to be part of some club (although I do encourage you to send money to the Debian project).
7) last but not least: THERE IS NO SUIT BRIGAGE AT DEBIAN which is 100% community oriented and 100% community run. There are 1000+ Debian maintainers out there, and you can bet that they are the best in the business, and nobody will ever fire any of them for some "economic reasons". Better still - Debian will never be bought, sold nor will Debian ever acquire another company. None of that corporate horror will ever happen with Debian which is a *project* and not a corporation.
For somebody who already knows GNU/Linux but who wants to understand Debian, I strongly reccommend the book "The Debian System" by Martin F. Kraft (which you can get here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270690/" title="amazon.com">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270690/</a amazon.com>
You will see why Debian is the fastest growing distro out there and why *ALL* the top GNU/Linux products (Knoppix, Kanpotix, DSL, INSERT, etc.) are all based on it.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 22, 2006 09:51 PMAs a former Mandrake user since 7.2 and a Silver Mandrake Club member let me reccommend Debian.
1) it is as easy to install as any Mandrake installation (either with Sarge or Kanotix).
2) DEBs are far, far, far superior to RPMs
3) Apt-get and/or Synaptic are better than anything Mandrake has ever produced
4) you get a much larger choice of applications (over 18000+ according to my last apt-get update check)
5) Debian is super stable and secure and runs much faster (in particular on older hardware)
6) the Debian community is fantastic. The former Mandrake users and Debian newbie that I am got tons of friendly and competent help on the many Debian mailing lists or IRC (the list is absolutely huge) and there is no need to spend your money to be part of some club (although I do encourage you to send money to the Debian project).
7) last but not least: THERE IS NO SUIT BRIGAGE AT DEBIAN which is 100% community oriented and 100% community run. There are 1000+ Debian maintainers out there, and you can bet that they are the best in the business, and nobody will ever fire any of them for some "economic reasons". Better still - Debian will never be bought, sold nor will Debian ever acquire another company. None of that corporate horror will ever happen with Debian which is a *project* and not a corporation.
For somebody who already knows GNU/Linux but who wants to understand Debian, I strongly reccommend the book "The Debian System" by Martin F. Kraft (which you can get here: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270690/" title="amazon.com">http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1593270690/</a amazon.com>
You will see why Debian is the fastest growing distro out there and why *ALL* the top GNU/Linux products (Knoppix, Kanpotix, DSL, INSERT, etc.) are all based on it.
Good luck!
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