My only comment on this would be that SuSE uses RPMs also. :-)

In fact most of the "Red Hat RPMs" posted of software out there will run out 
of the box with SuSE. (And the 7.0 Pro has 6 CDs(1 DVD) full of stuff.)

Your local SuSE bigot,
Jack

On Friday 12 January 2001 16:24, you wrote:
> I've been running RedHat 6.2 systems and been pretty happy.  But now I
> feel that I should be upgrading, but RedHat 7.0 seems to have a lot of
> issues.  More than I want to deal with, anyway.
>
> So, I was thinking about switching instead to Mandrake 7.2.  Any
> recommendations pro or con?
>
> I was particularly thinking of Mandrake because it seemed like the
> best way to profit from my RedHat experience, as opposed to using SuSE
> or Debian.  I don't mean to denigrate either of these distros, it's
> just that I've gotten used to rpm's, etc.
>
> Also, I'm not running servers, just i86 workstations, and my
> impression was that this was what Mandrake aimed at, more than other
> distros that emphasized server applications.
>
> So, any comments?
>
> Thanks!
> Robert
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