I'm curious about Mandrake too, I've never actually run that distro.
But I do have an opinion about Redhat 8.0..IMHO
Personally, I think it will be better with the next release.I was kinda surprised that they would release a distro that required a patch for xmms to play mp3z. Then, there is a tiny bug in Mozilla, in the address bar, if you right click, so you can select all, the menu disappears, and then refuses to come back up again. You have to use the main menu to "select all".
I've noticed also, that sometimes, a warning will pop up that "such and such" daemon is slowing down other processes.."do you want to close it?" this seems bizarre to me.
I'm going to keep using it though, until I learn to patch the kernel, and install modules. Then I'm gonna move on to Slackware fulltime. Mostly, I'm disappointed because 8.0 doesn't include the HP backends to support my 5100c scanner, which does work in Suse, but Suse comes with these backends preinstalled. They are a real pain in the arse to install right now.
Those are my bugs, but I still think it is cool.
[ October 16, 2002: Message edited by: RudeCat7 ]