Anyone know what Mandrake it going to do now that Red Hat is adding Gnome
and KDE?
Jeanette
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Subject: Re: [newbie] Gnome
> On Sun, Apr 25, 1999 at 07:52:13AM -0700, Russ Westbrook wrote:
> > Bela,
> >
>
> [big snip, sorry]
>
> >
> > Questions:
> >
> > What is the difference between Caldera and Red Hat (and the others)?
>
> Just different ways of doing the same things. That's about the only
> difference between any of the Linux distributions. Under Red Hat (and its
> derivatives), you use the RPM tool to install/remove packages. Red Hat
> ships some other tools to help you configure the system (printtool,
netcfg,
> ntsysv, etc). SuSE and Caldera (last I knew) also use the RPM tool to
> package things, but have different tools available to configure and
> adminstrate (is that a real word, or just a marketing word) the system.
> Debian uses the APT tool to install and configure packages (and as far as
> I'm concerned does a hell of a job with it too!). Slackware uses plain
> tarballs (.tar.gz packages) for installing software.
>
> > Can you run KDE and Gnome on the same machine under either Caldera or
> > Red Hat's version?
>
> You can run them both on Mandrake! I've got both GNOME and KDE installed
on
> this machine. My fiance uses KDE, I prefer GNOME. They don't conflict in
> any way, and you can easily use programs from the one when running the
> other.
>
> > Anyone have any opinions on which package is the best?
>
> I would wait until Monday to take a look at exactly what Red Hat is
planning
> to ship with their new version. I know both KDE and GNOME will be
included,
> but I'm not sure about StarOffice or WordPerfect.
>
> Personally, I'll probably stick around with Mandrake 5.3 until Mandrake
> 6.1(?) ships. These guys do a good job with the "Value Added" on top of
Red
> Hat.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
