[NTLUG:Discuss] What are the main wins of Mandrake over redHat

Wed Feb 20 11:29:03 CST 2002

Just as a note: I have/do run Red Hat (6.2, 7.1, and 7.2) on Compaq 
Prosigna, and Dell Latitude, laptops with a Xircom combo card 
(modem/ethernet) and have never had a problem with "out of the box" 
hardware recognition.

Ron Hamilton wrote:

> Mandrake has better hardware detection out of the box. Case in point, I 
> tried to put Redhat on my Toshiba Laptop, everything we ok except the 
> Xircom ethernet card.  Mandrake had no such problem.  Also Mandrake 
> supposedly makes the packages run better on pentium systems while redhat 
> writes everything for i386.. so things are supposed to run faster on 
> Mandrake.  I haven't noticed it myself.. but maybe that's just my 
> perception.
> 
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