[ltp] Mandrake vs Redhat

[Tod Harter]

Hmmm. Its a toughie. Mandrake is fundamentally very compatible with RedHat. 
There is some difference in philosophy between the distros however.

Mandrake tends to be more "bleeding edge". Its most often the first major 
distro to introduce new features and the latest versions of stuff. This is 
somewhat of a two-edged sword. Sometimes it works out well for the user 
because they get new stuff. ML 8.1 is running kernel 2.4.8, XFree 4.1, and 
KDE 2.2, all the latest release versions of these major subsystems. Sometimes 
its a bad thing, there can be more stability in older versions of certain 
things.

Red Hat is definitely somewhat more conservative. 

The other major difference is that Red Hat refuses to support KDE. Personally 
I like KDE, but if you only use Gnome, then its not an issue. 

My general opinion is that ML is a superset of RHL. Everything thats in RH is 
in ML, plus a lot more. Since the 8.x versions of ML came out it does seem to 
have moved ahead of the pack as a desktop OS. They have put a LOT of effort 
into installation, partitioning, system configuration tools, etc. If you want 
to run a server though its probably best to go with a RH 7.2 install, its 
just a little more standard and the extra features are not really all that 
big a deal for a server where you really just want stability above all else.

On Monday 31 December 2001 13:26, you wrote:
> Does anyone have any feeback or a good site that compares these two for a
> newbie?Easier to work with, install, support, etc.....Or are they close
> enough that it doesnt matter?  Which is more stable??
>
> thanks
>
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