Yeah.. I would have to say that Mandrake isn't anywhere near the first distro.. (more like slackware..)

Dave, more about eServer:

It's, as I said, really to get going out of the box. If you're brand spankin new to linux.. (well.. somewhat experienced..), and want to get a stable server up and going quickly; this is the way to go.

They make it extremely simple to manage your daemons, and come with all the base (expected) server software preinstalled. The one downside, is that unlike some of the bigger distro's (Debian/Stormix, Redhat, etc..) they don't have an 'auto-update' (or auto-install for that matter..) feature, which makes package isntallation/updates quite a bit easier.

It's wothwhile to look at..

Ryan

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