Re: Fedora

From: Helgi Örn Helgason (gnu4u_at_telia.com)
Date: 09/26/03

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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:24:08 +0200

    On 2003-09-26, Ian Mortimer wrote:
    >
    > I have to admit that my only experience with Mandrake is cleaning
    > up the mess after staff or students attempt to install it themselves.
    >
    And when they try Gentoo, Debian or even worse; *BSD's or MS OS's...

    > My impression is that Mandrake is a desktop oriented distribution that
    > likes to stay close to the bleeding edge and is not primarily targeted
    > at the server market. (But I could be wrong).
    >
    It is in fact a very popular server OS, home users, small corporations
    and large intranets alike. If you've ever installed a Mandrake OS you
    would know why.

    > The linux distributions I've mostly seen on servers are RedHat, SuSe
    > and Debian. (Debian seems to be especially popular with ISPs).
    >
    > FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also popular.
    Slackware and Mandrake are too.

    Cheers,
    Helgi Örn 

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