redhat or mandrake?

[voidmain]

Druid, that link you put up for SCSI is not right, can you fix the link?  There is a guy in another thread having trouble getting Mandrake to work on his AHA1542.  I used to use RedHat with that card for sure and didn't have any trouble.  Maybe that link can help him.

I also wiped out RedHat on my laptop to try Mandrake  8.1.  It didn't like my Linksys PCMCIA ethernet card so I had to go back to RedHat 7.2. I've used many versions of RedHat with that card with no trouble.

[Druid]

Sorry about the broken link, sorted now.  It seems that Mandrake has problems with ISA PnP cards.  there are solutions but I think they are beyond my ability to cure.

Also from the Mandrake forum FAQ:
How about Adaptec Drivers for SCSI?

The situation is basically unchanged. There are two major versions of Adaptec firmware on the cards. Many cards can be flashed to the newer firmware to work with our default driver, but some cannot.

So it's either a different distro, new SCSI card, or IDE hard drive and CDRom.

[ February 12, 2002: Message edited by: Druid ]

[iancom]

I've never tried SuSE or debian, so I can't comment on those...

I normally work to the principle of RedHat for servers, Mandrake for desktops. With the exception of some laptops... I've found RedHat 7.2 generally fares better there than Mandrake - it does seem to be the PCMCIA support that lets Mandrake down somewhat.

For serious Internet servers (rather than Samba fileservers), I would definitely go with a flavour of BSD (I prefer FreeBSD). Even more secure than Linux and just as stable.

This whole discussion in itself just goes to illustrate why the one-OS-fits-all model that M$ subscribe to just doesn't work. All applications are different and different OS's work better in different situations... Windoze tries to do everything and just ends up performing very poorly in all situations!

[dbl221]

Well for what its worth I have tried Suse,, RedHat,  FreeBSD, and Mandrake.

SuSe is my fav distro just because of yast    

I am running Mandrake on my main box and RedHat on the laptop.

Fav part of SuSe is the german man pages...can't tell you how much fun that is ...it's not!

Try them all.....its all good  

[triston1976]

I must make a comment (maybe my screen name gives it away)...

I've ran RedHat, Mandrake, and SuSE... all have there ups and downs...

The major selling point for me was when I tried setting up some services I'd spent weeks setting up on Solaris (Sparc and X86) then I went to Mandrake by download...  Red Hat from a friend...  Then finally I spent the 70$ for the professional version of SuSE with 7 cd's 1DVD and over 2300 apps that can be installed or deinstalled in a matter of minutes, and I was hooked...

Especially when I looked at Red Hat's 199$ pro version, and Mandrake's ProSuite (I could only find on line) for 149$. I started realizing why SuSE had ~80% of the Linux market in Europe... Not sure how their doing here in the states, but I'm betting things will get better after the new Linux Kernel guardian Torvalds assigned was an 18 year old former SuSE developer.

I guess we'll see, but for me I can't complain to much about SuSE.

The only thing I've noticed is that Gnome seems to be a bit more established on Mandrake and RedHat. Where SuSE seems to work best with Kde, or windowmaker (for smaller systems).

I can't bitch about stability though I've had one of my SuSE servers running on an UPS without any down time since I set the fucking thing up...(About 4 months ago)...

[voidmain]

What services were you having trouble with?