Which way to go with Linux?
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ipdave
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I prefer Mandrake, which is basically Redhat (uses RPMs - Redhat Package Manager) with extra bells-and-whistles. If you need a production server, Redhat would be a better choice. For home, Mandrake has more user-friendly tools and interfaces. Plus the installer is graphical like Partition Magic. Redhat's installer is still kinda geeky unless you are really really used to it.
as far as I know, there used to be major problems with some red hat rpms in the past, so I am kind of prejudiced against it. besides, mandrake is free, unless you want star office, while you have to pay for red hat, as far as I know.
I think mandrake is less user friendly than red hat/suse, but personally I had not many problems with mandrake, although you will need some time to learn how it works, but then again, no linux distribution is as user friendly as windows, so this is not a real disadvantage of mandrake.
apart from that, as ipdave already stated, mandrake is just a deviate of red hat, so there are just minor differences.
if you want mandrake, wait till v.9 final comes out, maybe kde 3 is included, kde 2.2 sucks.
I think mandrake is less user friendly than red hat/suse, but personally I had not many problems with mandrake, although you will need some time to learn how it works, but then again, no linux distribution is as user friendly as windows, so this is not a real disadvantage of mandrake.
apart from that, as ipdave already stated, mandrake is just a deviate of red hat, so there are just minor differences.
if you want mandrake, wait till v.9 final comes out, maybe kde 3 is included, kde 2.2 sucks.
I prefer Red Hat, but Mandrake & SuSe are also very popular.
mandrake rocks in my book.....9 beta 2 has kde3!!!!