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Re: Bug Report - Bernie's Win32Engine

• Posted by euman at bellsouth.net Aug 04, 2001
• 555 views

> > > BTW, RedHat - despite the marketing hype - isn't by any means
> > > the 'best' Linux out there, either.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Irv
> >
> > Im partial to RedHat because they made it easy
> > with the creation of the rpm....They deliver a quality
> > package every 8 weeks and their support is most
> > likely the best in the industry...although I do find
> > compiling my own kernel to be significantly better
> > for the particular machine I run it on.
>
> True, but Mandrake tends to look nicer,

what is there besides Gnome and KDE?
that can be setup to suit your particular taste.

>have an easier
> install, and better security (I am told),

I currently use a modified firestarter thru ipchains that seems to
be ok at blocking most of the scans I get...it also allows you to
shutdown a port if its being scanned regular from any address.
firestarter is a medium-medium strength *FREE* firewall.

>even though it is
> based on RedHat.

keyword based on RH........

>Its Software Manager is really slick.

I use a text based install so I dont really know about this.

>
> Since Mandrake was the first which recognized and
> worked with all my hardware,  I have stuck with it.

What hardware did RH not recognise?
The only problem I have ever run into was installing on my laptop
which has a WinModem but fortunately there are drivers that support
the majority of them now....

>
> Regards,
> Irv

BTW, great job on the tools you wrote for linux.