[COLUG] RedHat Free?

[John Burroway]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 03:25:54PM -0500, George H. Yeager wrote:
> I did the same thing today.  I've been evaluating distros (Gentoo most
> recently).  I was simply blown away by the Mandrake magazine stuff.  It
> installed perfectly with no mental effort.  No X problems, network came
> up fine, USB mouse is OK, floppy and CD-ROM work, and I have Gnome 2.4
> on my tricky little IBM 600x.
> 
> Just as good as RH9.  To be fair, you'll have to join the Mandrake Club
> to get updates.  Cost is a about the same as RH, but the product is more
> current.  Sorta what I wanted my RH9 with Red Hat Network to be.
> 
> Gotta think about this.

Just to throw some fuel onto the fire, mix some metaphors, and provide
some food for thought: Much like Debian, once you install Mandrake, you
can use URPMI to upgrade the whole installation when a new version comes
out. I did this last month, upgrading both my Thinkpad and desktop from
9.1 to 9.2.

John Burroway
john at burroway.net