"Thomas J. Hamman" wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Sergio Korlowsky wrote:
>
> > So.... what happended to the 99.9% Red Hat compatibility?
> > are you saying that Mandrake is breaking apart from red hat... ?
> > hmmmm I am testing cooker, and there are lots of red hat's
> > files in it... extrange!
> > But still says Welcome to Red Hat's... Mandrake cooker bla bla
> > at installation time thou... ;-)
>
> The compatibility means Mandrake uses the same basic file structure so
> that if you install an RPM compiled for RedHat than it should also work
> fine on Mandrake.
>
> It does not mean that Mandrake uses the same packages. If you compare
> Mandrake's packages to RedHat's, you'll notice that Mandrake 1) has many
> more packages than RedHat and 2) has newer versions of many of the
> packages they both have.
>
> -Tom
Yes I understand that Tom... I know there are a lot more packages in
mandrake than in redhat...
that alone doesn't make any distribution beter than the other, stability
does, also reliability.
and I also know mandrake is always on the cutting edge of whatever new
releases are available.
main reason why I am using mandrake ;-)
(before mdk came out I was planning to use Bero-Linux) then mandrake 5.1
showed up and started using it,
then Bernard joined forces with mandrake to get what we have now, a really
nice linux distro.
Easy to install and with support for lots more hardware than suse or redhat
itself.
In fact, even when redhat and mdk could look a little different.. they use
the same basic estructure,
the packaging squeme (rpms) and more.
it was just a comment when somebody mentioned redhat and mandrake were
'totally' different...
which are not.
Sergio
