On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:54:14 -0500 (COT), "John Karns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would think that it would make sense, as mdk is an rh derivative. I've
> no idea how much it may have distanced itself from rh though.
I wouldn't use Mandrake for a high-profile LTSP application.
I've used both, I've spent many months using Mandrake and comparing it to Redhat,
and there are a few things that tend to make me lean back towards Redhat:
1. *drake. What a pain. They're so hung up on a cutsie naming system that it
interferes with normal admin duties. If you're gonna admin one of these, and everyone
in your company will berate you if it's not right, you'd better be able to make
changes even when the GUI isn't available.
2. Drifting from the Redhat code. There are times when Mandrake realizes that
Redhat's gonna deprecate a tool or something, and then Mandrake has to loose a tool,
make a new one, and you have to learn the trick.
3. Unnecessary similarities. Mandrake and Redhat come from the same source, and
get visually-appealing updates that are really nice. But when you have a problem, you
can stray from 'the gospel' and be on your own with problems that the Redhat community
can't help you with.
4. Redhat can be dolled-up just like Mandrake is, all it takes is a handful of
Mandrake RPMs, and a stroll through the "Deuglification Howto" as found on Google.
Redhat, for some reason, doesn't optimize the way the fonts are handled, and it shows.
And packages like gtk-engine and gtk-themes and gtk-themes-extra are available.
So when you have a firewall, company-wide email, and possibly other servers
running Redhat, why buck the system for some user's ability to go "oooh"...when it's
working. :)
The real solution, if it could be done, is for Redhat to buy Mandrake, and have
all those cool graphic artists work their magic on one distro. Their product is nice,
but there's always been a problem with it being right behind the original product.
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