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

Wed Feb 20 12:11:06 CST 2002

Must be just me then.. I could never get the sound card to work under Redhat 
either.  Mandrake 8.1 detects it and it works.. but sometimes the ethernet 
card flakes out.. so now i just use that laptop without sound.

>From: Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net>
>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>To: discuss at ntlug.org
>Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] What are the main wins of Mandrake over redHat
>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:29:03 -0600
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>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.
>>
>>
>>>From: "Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)" <HarshalV at pun.COGNIZANT.COM>
>>>Reply-To: discuss at ntlug.org
>>>To: "'Discuss at ntlug.org'" <Discuss at ntlug.org>
>>>Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] What are the main wins of Mandrake over redHat
>>>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:23:08 +0530
>>>
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>>>
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