Linux: Mandrake and Redhat

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-06-15 11:08pm

One's supposedly based on the other.

Anyway, what's the difference between the two?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-15 11:37pm

Mandrake used to be more-or-less a RedHat wrapper. It's diverged quite a bit since, though.

There are numerous differnces - Mandrake prefers KDE, RedHat likes GNOME, for example.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-06-16 03:06am

/me has Mandrake ISOs...

And I'm waiting to get a new Uber Battleship to test it on. Maybe I can get a 3GHZ pent4 to act like a 6GHz Pentium 6...

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-06-16 03:52am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:/me has Mandrake ISOs...

And I'm waiting to get a new Uber Battleship to test it on. Maybe I can get a 3GHZ pent4 to act like a 6GHz Pentium 6...

You should know that Windows still has the upper hand when it comes to games.

Second, the only way to make a 3 GHz P4 to go at 6 GHz is to use liquid nitrogen as a cooling substance.

EDIT: I have Mandrake 9.1 CDs, but for some reason I can't get it to install on my comp. Weird.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-06-16 11:16am

Shinova wrote:
Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:/me has Mandrake ISOs...

And I'm waiting to get a new Uber Battleship to test it on. Maybe I can get a 3GHZ pent4 to act like a 6GHz Pentium 6...
You should know that Windows still has the upper hand when it comes to games.

Second, the only way to make a 3 GHz P4 to go at 6 GHz is to use liquid nitrogen as a cooling substance.

EDIT: I have Mandrake 9.1 CDs, but for some reason I can't get it to install on my comp. Weird.

2 Words: Dual Boot.

I'm not talking the actual speed, I'm talking about what speed it'll seem to go. It was a joke on how much Windoze sux!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-06-16 12:03pm

I have not seen a noticable difference in speed between Linux and Windows. If anything, I find the graphics hardware acceleration of XFree86 to be inferior to that of GDI.