SoT wrote:

Martin 53N 1W wrote:

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(Boinc works fine over here on Linux (;-))

Yep.

Good luck,
Martin

ps: Note the tempting flame bait (:-P)

But people need to know there is a better OS out there.  I tried

Quite so, and there are yet more other systems alongside the various flavours of Linux also.

Unfortunately, people can get very upset and pseudo-religious when they have paid money for the Microsoft stuff to be then told that there is something that (in my opinion at least) works much better and that doesn't cost so much money.

Mandrake and was impressed at how easy it installed and how solid a
system it is but I'm a Fedora fan.

An important part of Open Source Software (Linux) is that you have exactly that type of choice (:-))

I prefer the "European"-ness of the Mandrake/Mandriva group. Apart from the continuing foibles with 'supermount' that tries to make Mandrake more "Windows-like" friendly for those that want that, I've found the system and tools work well. Guess I've chosen Mandrake (:-))

I'll also be looking at Gentoo and one or two of the very small distros at some time.

Hey, you know they changed the name; right?
 http://www.mandriva.com/

Yep. Those darn Amerikan sue-everybody bastards. No sense of poetic humour!

I'll be moving to Mandrake 10.2 (oops! Mandriva LE) as soon as I get the bittorrent download.


All good fun.

Cheers,
Martin