Dear Anindya, nice to know that u have got the cds finally. I am also using RH since last 3yrs. but the worst thing in RH that the later versions always avoid the cooler and helpful applet of it's previous. specially the disk space checking applet of GNOME is not present in RH8. I also fully agree with u that the menus are changed totally and I don't support it. again mpg123 is not there. nor any vcd player.
I have tested MDK first time with MDK9. it is just great. by the way MDK is specially tuned for Pentium processor. so it runs faster on the Pentium machine. but u can get the speed in any distro. if u compile the kernel based on ur h/w. atleast I also do this. MDK totally based on RH. but with a polished look and u get some vcd players there which is not available in RH. (u have to download those for RH ) . Finally RH Linux is known widely than MDK and almost all the books are based on RH Linux. My xwindow appears very poor in RH8. since this distro has the Xfree86 server version 4. there is no support for my vga (which is a little bit old) so I have to use VESA driver. but MDK9 has both version 4 and 3.3.6 of xfree86 so for X , MDK gives just a fine support in case of mine. ALSA is present in MDK9 but not in RH. So I am also in a serious time to decide what distro. to use. I have no idea about debian but heard about its superiority over RH, MDK or any other distro. of linux. Siddhartha also say so. before taking the final decision I want to test the deb.. also. happy linuxing --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Joydeep Bakshi, Computer Society of India, The Computer Dept. of Gujrati College, Kolkata, India --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > ----- Original Message ----- > From: anindya chakraborty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:12 AM > Subject: [ilug-cal] thanks to siddarthada > > > > Hi, > > got RH 8.0 ,mandrake 9.0 and Knoppix from > > Siddarthada...9 cds....I always used RedHat..so I was > > particularly curious abt 8....though i installed both > > Mandrake and RH i felt RH did a bit too much too follow > > XP!!!...it changed menu,there is no shortcut for console > > which is ofcourse a bit odd .. looks cool but the font > > problem remains....mandrake on the other hand is faster.. > > atleast in my machine anyways I am goign to give it some > > look before i decide ..but thanks to siddarthada....will > > try debian from him later.....what you think guys...which > > one is better regarding usability..? > > > > I have 3 ditros as written above so anybody wants to have a > > copy may contact me as I have writer so would > > like to help. > > > > comments are welcome, > > anindya > > > > __________________________________________________________ > > Give your Company an email address like > > ravi @ ravi-exports.com. Sign up for Rediffmail Pro today! > > Know more. http://www.rediffmailpro.com/signup/ > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > > > > -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
