> And for Ian (this is slightly off-thread-topic) and other Mandrake
> "fanatics": I'm slowly (hehehe) being convinced to go Mandrake because
> they seem to be more proactive when it comes to releasing useable RPMs of
> the latest versions of software. Is this mild observation of mine valid?
> Aside from having the "mdk" RPMs, and all those "goodies" that you want to
> put in, what makes Mandrake different from RedHat? I don't want a sales
> pitch.
Well you won't get one. \8) I'm not a fanatic, The right tool for the job. In
the sense that for pure server use, i still opt for redhat 6.2. I use mandrake:
1. for deploying to newbie clients because
a. the windows 98 desktop KDE theme makes it less "alien" to look at
b. reiserfs means less tech support calls due to "accidentally pulling the
plug.
2. for my personal desktop use. It more pretty, functional, polished than
redhat will ever be.
As for the RPMS/SRPMS, yes you're correct that Mandrake has a "more active"
packaging team, and it shows by the size of their distro -> 1 650MB CD and 1
300MB extension CD. That's not even including their 'contrib-RPMS' in their
ftp mirrors. Their default kernel is heavily patched also, in the sense that i
won't even think of duplicating their effort at providing additional
functionality to the stock kernel. But you can use these SRPMs for redhat as
well, as they are still very much compatible with each other. More than SuSE
or Caldera RPMs are.
I want to know how much change (denoted by y as a function of ...
> argh ... too much Math 52 [first Calculus of the series in UP Manila] for
> me! Hahaha!) I'll be in for. I'm planning an upgrade of the server in the
> office, and among the many changes (addition of new hard drive,
> repartitioning, use of new filesystem, implementation of md RAID1) I think
> I want to move to Mandrake. What do you people think? Any tips for this
> potential RedHat convertee?
If you won't be doing Reiser or X or a desktop, forget it. It will just eat up
resources. If you'll be doing Reiser, do try to install it without X. I
haven't yet tried to strip down MDK without X, but maybe it will work.
> Also, I've never been comfortable with letting
> RedHat do the upgrading of an older release on its own. I find that it
> meddles too much, so I prefer to do the updating of the packages
> one-by-one. Too much work if the upgrade isn't all that worthwhile. How
> are things with Mandrake auto-updates from one release to the next
> (assuming not too significant a delta between releases, ie: one stable
> release to the next stable release, exclusive of all those pre's and
> alpha's in between)?
Same thing here. For peace of mind, i back up the config file first, just in
case the install script in the RPM decides to hose the one i have configured.
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