red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1

[new2linux55]

Which would u all prefer......?

Im chooseing to install one or the other.

Any ideas ?

[smokey]

i haven't used either (!) but RedHat 8 is quite good   as well as Mandrake 9.

I found RedHat's support to be a little better (as in getting drivers to install) than Mandrake - however 9.1 may have changed that.

[Faust]

Mandrake 9.1 in my opinion...
I recomend it for so many reasons, but one of the main ones is the disghusting lack of pre installed media support in Red Hat 8.  Might have changed by now, but if you're installing a linux OS for the first time you dont want to config up a new video player or mp3 codec straight away so you want them preinstalled...  also mandrake seems to come with more nice stuff on the cds and i dislike the front end to rpm that red hat comes with...
although red hat does seem more "refined" than mandrake.

edit : install both, a little while after the other then you can choose for yourself which is  better.  

[ April 18, 2003: Message edited by: Faust ]

[Siplus]

as far as redhat and mandrake go, i've tried RH7.2, RH8, RH9 and mandrake8.2.

as you can see, i favor redhat   , so i can't really give you a fare comparison. i'd say go with redhat9, because i have it and i'm happy with it, but i'm partial so take that into consideration

[TheQuirk]

Get Mandrake. It's built around KDE, a much more polished product that Gnome. Also, it has great GUI configuration tools, comes with mp3 support out of the box, and is generally what people go with when they want to try Loonix.

[Doogee]

how about slack 9?

[edisav]

I've used Mandrake 9.1, I like it a lot and so far so good! Slack is harder and the documentation is extremely weak, although the OS is great. Based on my own experience, Slack isn't a good choice for beginners but awesome for advanced users.

I play a lot with the desicion of Mandrake or RH, but I think I'll stay with Mandrake.

Unfortunately I only downloaded one CD from Mandrake and I've been trying to download the rest, but the speeds are painfully slow and it'll take forever to download CDs 2 and 3. Does anyone know when it will hit the shelves? I prefer no to buy it over the net.

ThnX!

[Siplus]

quote:Originally posted by Doogee : t3h sl4(k i5 1337:
how about slack 9?

slack isn't as easy because they use the basic gnome/kde (imo). redhat modifies these to include a lot of ease of use features that i haven't found in slackware's. (also, i've only use used slack9 for like a day or two in all, so i can't compare fairly)

[KernelPanic]

quote:Originally posted by xinix:
I've used Mandrake 9.1, I like it a lot and so far so good! Slack is harder and the documentation is extremely weak, although the OS is great. Based on my own experience, Slack isn't a good choice for beginners but awesome for advanced users.

I play a lot with the desicion of Mandrake or RH, but I think I'll stay with Mandrake.

Unfortunately I only downloaded one CD from Mandrake and I've been trying to download the rest, but the speeds are painfully slow and it'll take forever to download CDs 2 and 3. Does anyone know when it will hit the shelves? I prefer no to buy it over the net.

ThnX!

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[TheQuirk]

quote:Originally posted by Siplus: *Capitalist*:

...redhat modifies these to...

I was waiting for you to say "completely destroy KDE", but I guess you're not on the ball.

[Doogee]

hehehe.

Red Hat modifies some of there stuff *cough*KDE*cough* just a little bit too much

[raptor]

i prefer RedHat.

[Siplus]

well, i don't use KDE, so i wouldn't know   :rolleyes:

[Doogee]

neither do i, i use XFce.

But butchering software that much isn't nice.