ive found my self fond and hatetred towards mandrake i love the simplicity but sick of all the cds even tho its like what 3-4 cds? i dont know i strongly perfer 1 cd distros any way i want to know why you love mandrake? ah and if it matters the last mandrake i tryed was 10.1 community :P and no im not flaming on mandrake

I haven't tried any other distros and I heard this was the friendliest and easiest to use. So far I like it!

I don't mind the 3-6 CD's (Powerpack) since it has extra features on it. I rather have it than not have it, if that makes any sense.

3 - 4 CDs ? There are even 6 CDs in the 10.1 Powerpack, my friend.!!
Why I love Mandrake ? There's no good reason..
Why do you love a girl ? She may not be the smartest, she may wear gaudy clothes, she may not
please your friends or family.. What do you care ?
I've tried other distros, but Mandrake is the best for me.
We French are sooo stupid when it comes to choosing a car, a book, a film, or a distro..
We are complete morons as far as business is concerned.
Mandrake ? I looove the little star
Anyway, it may be a bad distro but it still sells good .. Go figure

lol

but 6 cds thats to much lol

6 CDs is no big deal. It doesn't take that much disk-swapping during the install. Or you can just get it on one DVD -- no swapping at all!

I like Mandrake because for me, it "just works".

I know enough about computers and *nix (I have been working with Unix-based computers since 1985) to be able to handle most of what it throws my way (and what I don't know, I can ask here! ), but when I get home from work, I want to sit down and just play, not mess around with config files, and tweaking every little last thing just to make it work. I want to surf the web, read my email, chat with friends, play a few games -- nothing special. Mandrake lets me do all that with no hassles.

The reason I prefer Mandrake over Fedora Core is, FC refused point blank to believe that I had a network card in my machine, yet Mandrake (9.2 at that time) picked it up without any special tweaking from me, just a quick check to confirm that I was using dhcp. It's little things like that, which go a long way. Another reason, is the updates feature. Apart from the one or two times i've updated my system while my local mirror was being updated and ended up needing to remove packages, as they wouldn't work with the others i was updating, it has never trashed my computer, unlike Windows. Incidentally after a short wait (next day I think) I was able to install the removed packages updates manually, using the normal software install. The Mandrake control centre makes most system admin straightforward and painless, and if there's something that I want to do that the control centre can't do, I use webmin.

The only gripe I have is the mandrake kernels, the supermount function is usually dodgy. I don't know if it's a combination of character set and codepage options in /etc/fstab and supermount, or supermount itself. Either way, on a fresh install, i cit the junk out of fstab and download the last stable kernel from kernel.org and install it. After i'm sure it's ok, the mandrake supplied kernels get ditched permanently. The only other thing I do is set up urpmi to use a local ftp server as it's main rpm repository and add in the club/updates/plf sources.

Here is my reason:

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ease of use, easy installation, and bzflag

amazing

I like how easy it is to install and administer Mandrake through it's GUI config tools. I like the immense number of packages in it's main and contrib software repositories. I hate the bugs though, they can't seem to build a distro without riddling it with bugs. With each release I keep hoping things will get better and I still have my fingers crossed that things will improve, especially now that they have decided enter the enterprise market.

I've been using Mandrake since the very first version 5.2 (before that I used slack then RH). It has never scr3wed me so I stuck with it. Initially it was because it came with KDE - before MDK I had to d/l KDE separately - used it from beta 2 or so. Once you get used to a distro you might as well stick with what you know, and even when they have a buggy distro it's easy to fix - I tend to use a generic kernel anyway and that fixes most probs...

I also like it coz of all the CD's. More the better when you are on dialup.

to tell the truth i love this distro coz of it's really easy config for "noobies" who migrates from MShit to GNU/Linux.... what cxould i say more....

Even old time users like me like 'easy' now and then, so I use it... And it's great for the wife and kids to use as well. And I can still get in and hack away. It's still just linux under the pretty wrapping.

I started with a June 1994 release of Slackware myself, but I love Mandrake and have since I first got 7.2. Now I'm running 9.1 on my server which usually gets from 1500 to 2000 hours online before another stupid fan goes out, I haven't shutdown the server for any other reason except to add a 160gig HD for two years now. If I could only get fans that run forever.

speel
For me, it simply works. I also like the option to use the drake tools for ease of configuration. As far as the 3 to 6 cd sets, they are free and $85 US respectively. You don't need more than one cd if you have a broadband connection for installation. Most all the cd's are software for the operating system. I would be interested to know how much a similar offering from M$ would cost. Imagine the price of a 3 cd M$ offering which included say M$office, Photoshop, etc. It would be staggering I am sure.