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> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 1999 10:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: [expert] Back to Red Hat - ?
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> I've only used Mandrake. How is Red Hat different from Mandrake?
Based solely on my experience:
RedHat 6.1 - lots of install anomalies (partitioning issues, wants you to
configure X before a single package is install {really nice if it should
hang!})
RedHat 6.1 - misses lots of packages on install (grep, cpio, tar, bzip2,
find, rpm - to name a few off a very long list)
RedHat 6.1 - SMP kernel works (MDK 6.1 did not)
RedHat 6.1 - PCMCIA works (MDK 6.1 did not)
MDK 6.1 - KDE (RH 6.1 Gnome - ugh)
Both start way too many daemons (every box I own is not, in fact, a mail
server) and have fairly bloated installs (lots of mail, chat, and news
clients)
Getting PCMCIA to work (with more recent code) and compiling my own SMP
kernel were cake........
Other than that they are pretty much the same IMHO. I got tired of RH
forcing me to piece over every install that I now run Mandrake with a bunch
of stuff from the RH 6.1 PowerTools CD.
YMMV
Don
