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Re: Which distribution



O>> > and I am not sure which distribution should I install - RedHat 6.1
O>> > (or 6.2 for that matter) or Mandrake 7.0 (I have outrulled the rest
O>> > of the existing distributions out of various reasons).

I've just installed Mandrake 7 and I have to report it's rather nice.
Installation procedure is very nice and intuitive (it allows you to return
to some points back and generally behaved almost like I thought it
should), and install is cleaner than RH's. Only strange thing I observed
that it somehow messed up X install (it was a laptop), and I spent some 20
minutes trying to get working config, then returned to defaults - and X
worked with them. Strange thing is that installer test didn't work, while
real X did, but I don't feel too bad about it - it would be worse other
way :)

Yet another strange thing - it managed to strip Windows installation
without asking me how much I want for Linux. And it chose reasonable
values (I've checked afterwards), though I wouldn't partition disk exactly
this way. But for the beginner it's nice feature - it doesn't ask "hard"
questions.

O>> It seems that Mandrake can be more crackable than RedHat, just because from
O>> the cracker's point of view Mandrake is the known foe. On the other way,
O>> RedHat security is very strange, somewhere zero, somewhere high. May be the
O>> right answer would be choosing Mandrake, and mending it up to desired level
O>> of security by hand.

I observed that Mandrake installs less trash than RH and default
configuration is more clean (no various rlogin's enabled by default). I
don't know was it because of level of security (I chose "medium"), good
defaults or some button that I've checked and forgot about it :)
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