Difference between Mandrakelinux 10.1 and FedoraCore 5.*

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-24 10:37am

Anybody know the difference between them? I am interested in knowing because Mandrake has been pissing me off lately.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-24 12:04pm

Destructionator XIII wrote:Look at these sites:
Mandrake Features Page
and
Fedora Package List
I haven't personally used Fedora Core, but their websites both offer alot of information.

Thankx!

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-24 09:16pm

Um, FC4 isn't even out yet and you're talking about FC5?

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-24 09:46pm

phongn wrote:Um, FC4 isn't even out yet and you're talking about FC5?

My bad, sorry. I thought wrong (again...).

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-24 09:50pm

Fedora Core tends to be very bleeding-edge from what I've heard, comparable to Mandrake Cooker release candidate snapshots.

Perhaps you could elaborate on what's bugging you about Mandrake. I've found that aside from a few bugs Mandrake official releases are very stable.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2005-01-24 11:10pm

FC is indeed somewhat bleeding-edge (except for FC1, which was really a cleaned-up RH9)

CDS · Post by **CDS** » 2005-01-25 02:52am

Mandrake is easier. 'Nuff said.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-25 10:07am

The bugs I'm running into are 1) I can't use the OpenOffice.org suite, 2) I can't use some of the games, and 3) WheneverI plug my flash drive into it, Konqueror screws up half the time.

JeanLucPicard · Post by **JeanLucPicard** » 2005-01-25 10:40am

I was able to start OO.org Writer ONCE, and then after that, it wouldn't run. The games used to work, but for some reason, they just stopped. As for the flash drive, I can access it through the shell when Konqueror fails.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-01-25 11:28am

JeanLucPicard wrote:I was able to start OO.org Writer ONCE, and then after that, it wouldn't run. The games used to work, but for some reason, they just stopped. As for the flash drive, I can access it through the shell when Konqueror fails.

Try creating a new user and logging in as that user to see if your problems are related to local user-specific configuration changes you've inadvertently made. I've been using MDK 10.1 for a while and I've never had any of these problems you describe. I can even play commercial DVDs on it with no hitches.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-01-25 12:59pm

The main problem with flash drives (and this is common to all Linux distros) is handling how to mount them. Mandrake has a system where they've integrated RedHat kudzu into the draktools, and whenever a flash drive is plugged in, it's automatically mounted via kudzu. When you unplug it, kudzu automatically unmounts it.

That doesn't always work with a GUI though. Konqueror tends to be a bit flaky with automagic (un)mounts, while Nautilus is a bit more stable concerning that. I'd say that the safest way to go would be to plug in the drive, then open Konqueror and try to access it. Close Konqueror when you're done, then unplug the drive.

If that doesn't work, then kudzu may not have detected it properly. Generally the device should be /dev/sdb1 or similar.

Here's the line from my fstab:

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/dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0,user,iocharset=utf8,sync,kudzu,noauto,exec,users 0 0

If you could run 'cat /etc/fstab' in the terminal and then paste the relevant line in (look for /mnt/removable), I could probably help you more. To paste btw, just select the text in the terminal and then click the middle mouse button while in the post reply box.