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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: new2linux55 on 18 April 2003, 20:07

Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: new2linux55 on 18 April 2003, 20:07: Which would u all prefer......?

Im chooseing to install one or the other.

Any ideas ?
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: smokey on 18 April 2003, 20:11: 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.
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Faust on 19 April 2003, 04:39: 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 ]
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Siplus on 19 April 2003, 07:24: as far as redhat and mandrake go, i've tried RH7.2, RH8, RH9 and mandrake8.2.

as you can see, i favor redhat (http://smile.gif) , 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
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: TheQuirk on 19 April 2003, 08:24: 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.
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Doogee on 19 April 2003, 17:15: how about slack 9?
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: edisav on 20 April 2003, 02:40: 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!
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Siplus on 20 April 2003, 02:50: 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)
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: KernelPanic on 20 April 2003, 03:25: 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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Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: TheQuirk on 20 April 2003, 05:05: 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.
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Doogee on 20 April 2003, 05:48: hehehe.

Red Hat modifies some of there stuff *cough*KDE*cough* just a little bit too much
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: raptor on 20 April 2003, 05:52: i prefer RedHat.
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Siplus on 20 April 2003, 06:37: well, i don't use KDE, so i wouldn't know :rolleyes:
Title: red hat 9 vs mandrake 9.1
Post by: Doogee on 20 April 2003, 06:52: neither do i, i use XFce.

But butchering software that much isn't nice.