Re: giving up on mandrake

From: Styvaen (abuse_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:55:07 -0000

Rowdy Yates wrote:
> that's a very logical post. i am A/B comparing distros for possible
> migration from Microsoft OS platform. this is also for enterprise
> usage not personal use.
>
> users have to be logged in as regular user accounts. temporarily
> switch to SU account to perform security updates e.t.c.. but, once
> that task is complete, the status has to switch back to regular user.
> users can not be logged in as super users to do regular user tasks,
> word processing e.t.c...
>
> when i stick to just using a superuser account, it performs normally,
> but if i try ---> i am logged in with regular user account,
> temporarily switch to superuser to do a system critial upgrade,
> switch back to regular user ---> restart machine ---> the KDE
> environment goes all to hell.
>
> i open a terminal and do a list , i see files flashing red.
>
Probably orphaned links. Mandrake like to put /usr in its own partition so
perhaps /usr got itself unmounted or something.

I hope you didn't log into kde as root. This is considered a no-no. As
for my experiences of mandrake lets just say I fell out with its constantly
messing with my file associations in kde.

As for speed gentoo is quicker and I feel like I am in control of what is
going on but it is geared towards the home user rather than enterprise.

SuSe is probably one to look at.

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