Redhat and Mandrake

[The Morleys]

On Thursday 20 June 2002 04:02 pm, Ian wrote:
> I am new to the Linux OS. What I want to know is the difference between
> RedHat and Mandrake.

I assume you want to know the difference you will see from and end user 
standpoint.  Correct me if I am wrong.  Mandrake has done a lot more work in 
creating a nicer end user experience.  By end user I am talking the typical 
desktop user.  They have created some user tools that make configuring and 
changing your system more of a point and click operation.  They also DO a lot 
more for the end user.  If you have Mandrake 8.0 or above you can go to 
Mandrake's site and get rpm's for KDE 3.0 and 3.01. They are a snap to 
install. I know you can get RH rpms but the company doesn't officially put 
out any nice enduser updates like this.  Mandrake also has a urpmi command 
line utility for installing rpms.  Simply open up a terminal, type urpmi 
rpmnamehere.rpm and the system will take care of either finding dependencies 
or telling you what dependencies the package has.  It's a very nice utility.

Hope that gives you some of what you want.

timm