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:FlexBeta: Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux Distros Compared
FlexBeta: Fedora vs Mandrake vs Suse: Linux Distros Compared
Jul 3, 2004, 19 :00 UTC (11 Talkback[s]) (16971 reads)

(Other stories by Mike Petersen)

[ Thanks to Gsurface for this link. ]

"Linux is starting to take the world of computers by storm. Corporate greed, insane legal licensing and constant Windows vulnerabilities are starting to take its toll on the general computing population, and many are looking for an alternative. For some Linux is the answer.

"The Linux Operating System is very different than proprietary Operating Systems. Linux has a community based development model where many people, organizations and businesses jointly develop the software. With this style of development, there is no one entity that controls everything, but because of this, it is quite difficult to build a coherent system that will run on personal computers. This is where distributions come in..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Nicely done article (it's nice to re ...   Good read   
scott_R
Jul 3, 2004, 21:55:40
 
I managed to make it to the third page,  ...   'Drivel''   
Rainer Weikusat
Jul 5, 2004, 06:00:37
 
I really enjoy SuSE-Gnome and KDE !!  I  ...   Thanks 4 the read   
Monti_C
Jul 5, 2004, 10:48:24
 
> If my 2nd HDD is partitioned, how diff ...   Re: Thanks 4 the read   
Tony OBryan
Jul 5, 2004, 17:23:25
 
If you would of read more, you would hav ...   Re: Drivel   
iectech
Jul 5, 2004, 17:47:27
 
page 2 : oww mandrake only needs 8.2 min ...   Real Fun to read :)   
Robert M. Stockmann
Jul 5, 2004, 23:35:44
 
> If you would of read more, you would h ...   Re: Re: Drivel   
Rainer Weikusat
Jul 6, 2004, 01:40:49
 
> I managed to make it to the third page ...   Re: 'Drivel''   
NeoSadist
Jul 6, 2004, 11:00:15
 
Why not Slackware?I'm interested in  ...   Slackware   
Rui Tiago
Jul 6, 2004, 11:00:45
 
Honestly, I can see the point of compari ...   Why are we comparing times?   
NeoSadist
Jul 6, 2004, 11:05:24
 
[ kernel messages ].> This is partly tru ...   Re: Re: 'Drivel''   
Rainer Weikusat
Jul 7, 2004, 00:48:42
 
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