Mandrake vs Red Hat vs....?

[groovin]

Just wanted your opinions, what are the differences betweek Mandrake and Red Hat Linux? what other powerful linux brands are out there? How does the security on these compare to that of Windows NT/2000/XP?

thanks

-Linux Newbie

 

[Goosemaster]

GENTOO BABY!!

 

[Goosemaster]

EVERY DAMN THING GETS COMPILED FOR YOUR DAMN PC!!!

 

[Goosemaster]

MY BASH WINDOW POPS UP IN 3.3 MICROSECONDS!!!!


I OWZZZ JOO!!!

 

[Goosemaster]

heh


Dangerous hings happen when caffiene is at play...



Seriosusly, Redhat Secuirty is outstanding, with rapid updates.

Gentoo seems to be lightning fast as well.

 

[groovin]

hahah good stuff

 

[magomago]

it might be me, but mandrake is a little slow...i'm not sure I've only used 8.1

I have a 500mhz pc with 320 megs of ram and it takes 10-15 seconds to open up the KDE version of Windows Explorer

 

[pac1085]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
GENTOO BABY!!

 

[Entity]

Mandrake 9 is good, but Redhat 8 is better. For the server market I'd stick with Debian, but it's just too ugly for me to want to work with it for a desktop machine, even though apt-get rocks the house.

Rob

 

[Nothinman]

Debian on every one of my boxes from my Dual Athlon workstation to my Alphas and Ultra Sparcs. It's great to have 1 OS on all of them.

 

[Bremen]

lol Entity! apt is the exact reason I wouldn't want debian on servers :0)

 

[Nothinman]

lol Entity! apt is the exact reason I wouldn't want debian on servers :0)

Right, who would want servers that make it easy to install, update, configure, etc software?

 

[Bremen]

Right, who would want servers that make it easy to install, update, configure, etc software?

Me apparently :0) I subscribe to the bizarre notion that one shouldn't be installing, configuring (on a server) software all that often to begin with. Updating I can understand, but really, apt just makes it too easy to be lazy.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Entity
Mandrake 9 is good, but Redhat 8 is better. For the server market I'd stick with Debian, but it's just too ugly for me to want to work with it for a desktop machine, even though apt-get rocks the house.

Rob

You're right apt-get does rock! Even in RH8.

 

[Workin']

apt just makes it too easy to be lazy

Are you mental?

 

[Louie1961a]

IMHO I have tried Red Hat 8, Mandrake 9 and Suse 8.1...I like Suse the best. Most polished, best system config tools, many things pre-installed (i.e., linmodem drivers for HSF and mwave modems) and ALSA sound.

Costs some money for the full versions, but worth it.

 

[EmperorRob]

I'm having lots of problems with Suse 8.1.

Can't seem to rebuild their src.rpms and on top of that they don't include all their rpms on their personal boxed CDs. And they still haven't made them available on their ftps and mirrors.

I can't get vim to compile although I'm sure it's just a difference in the include dirs somewhere I have to change. For some crazy reason the binaries of vim have the gui disabled. Also the Mplayer binaries have avi support disabled. But recompiling these has turned into a job and a half.