StarDestroyer.Net BBS

I've seen people commenting here on their financial situation, but I'm not really up on the latest news in Linux. I've got a copy of Mandrake 9 and (now that my hard drive's given up the ghost) a chance to install it, but I don't want to put it on if there won't be any updates in the future.

Is there another easy-to-install Linux distribution? I just want to point it at some unpartitioned space and let it sort itself out.

What tubes?

Subnormal wrote:What tubes?

It's an expression. Down the pan, up the spout...

Impossible to say. But the nice thing about linux is that you can always simply switch to a different distro if the one you use loses support (technically, you can even support it yourself if you're that proficient and you can keep an eye on major updates as they pertain to key pieces of your OS).

I'm using MDK9.0, and while it is not known whether the company will still be around in two years, so what? It works, it has updates now, the skills you learn in terms of administration will apply to another distro if necessary, and if it goes down the tubes I can just switch to Redhat and live with their butchered version of KDE.

Darth Wong wrote:Impossible to say. But the nice thing about linux is that you can always simply switch to a different distro if the one you use loses support (technically, you can even support it yourself if you're that proficient

Ah, well, part of the problem is I'm not...

and you can keep an eye on major updates as they pertain to key pieces of your OS).

I'm using MDK9.0, and while it is not known whether the company will still be around in two years, so what? It works, it has updates now, the skills you learn in terms of administration will apply to another distro if necessary, and if it goes down the tubes I can just switch to Redhat and live with their butchered version of KDE.

I'll probably install Mandrake then (I've been through installing that on someone elses computer, so it'll be less of an adventure). Thanks.