Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on November 03, 2005 11:52 AM
I agree with the parent completely. Had the author of the article snooped around the filesystem a little bit, he would have found a completely configurable Linux filesystem. type "urpmi make automake cvs svn" as ROOT and you have a completely usable build system for source too (since urpmi will grab all dependencies etc and install them with these).
Under the hood, Mandriva is still very close to and compatible with Fedora Core/Redhat, right down to the ability to configure etc/ settings files and tweaking fstab.
To clarify the misunderstanding that the author may have about the wizards in Mandrake. When you manually configure a setting, the wizard won't overwrite the setting until you run the wizard again. If I want to run the Nvidia driver Module instead of the NV xorg module for my Nvidia videocard to enable 3d support.. I just edit my xorg.conf same as you would in Fedora Core.
It's an easy to use OS, but it's still a fully featured RPM based system. I won't contest that the slackers and the gentoos and the debians are more "linux" than an RPM system. But Mandriva does hold it's own with Suse, Fedora, Red Hat etc. It's as good as any RPM based distro out there.
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Re:author is ignorant about what he's writing
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 03, 2005 11:52 AMUnder the hood, Mandriva is still very close to and compatible with Fedora Core/Redhat, right down to the ability to configure etc/ settings files and tweaking fstab.
To clarify the misunderstanding that the author may have about the wizards in Mandrake. When you manually configure a setting, the wizard won't overwrite the setting until you run the wizard again. If I want to run the Nvidia driver Module instead of the NV xorg module for my Nvidia videocard to enable 3d support.. I just edit my xorg.conf same as you would in Fedora Core.
It's an easy to use OS, but it's still a fully featured RPM based system. I won't contest that the slackers and the gentoos and the debians are more "linux" than an RPM system. But Mandriva does hold it's own with Suse, Fedora, Red Hat etc. It's as good as any RPM based distro out there.
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