Linux Mandrake 8.2

[Kenneth Browne]

Jim wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> I was just wondering if anyone had ideas on this
>
>
>
> So I wonder if I should just stick with Mandrake 8.2 on my oldworld Mac
> 8600?
> I know Mandrake 8.2 is a little outdated,but why does it run so good on
> my computer? Was that OS optimized for my kind of machine?
> What do you think?
> Jim

You're probably already aware that there's a Mandrake 9.1 out now. I've
used Mandrake in the past on x86 machines and am in the middle of
downloading it due to my inability to get sound working in my Old World
Mac; because Mandrake has excellent documentation included on the CD's; and
because the gui package manager was a lot less geek dependent than YDL.
I've had YDL 3.0 on one hard disk on my Mac for a few weeks now and still
haven't figured out how to add packages or subtract them. (I know there's a
command line interface, and I'd like to learn it, but I'd also like the gui
so I can take my time learning the meaning of the switches, etc. that go
with urpmi!