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

MadHat madhat at unspecific.com
Wed Feb 20 12:32:45 CST 2002


Sorry, forgot the link on my last mail
http://www.tech-junkie.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=36

it focuses on Gaming, but does have some interesting info.  (I just
skimmed it).

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 10:45, 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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> >Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:23:08 +0530
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