Mandrake or Red Hat?

Darkath · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: Mandrake or Red Hat?

My friend is wanting to put Linux on his machine, and I'm trying to help him decifer which one to put on

Does anyone know some info about both, and know which is the better distro?
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Spanish Warpig · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

Smegma · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 10:58 pm Post subject:

if u have not played with linux before check this site out .just download it burn to cd and then boot runs off disk so u can see if linux is for you or your friend in this case
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http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
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sharkbyte · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 8:25 am Post subject:

Smegma, I don't know which is more sick. Your avatar or your sig.

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FingerDemon · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 9:12 am Post subject:

If you aren't sure about Linux, I definitely recommend a dual boot setup. I just did this with my old machine and it works fine. I used Mandrake and it was very easy to setup IMHO. But Red Hat is probably just as easy. I went with Mandrake because it sounded like it was more suited to individuals and not just Enterprise workstations. But I could be wrong about that. There is a lot about Linux that I don't know. I thought Mandrake could be made to "see" the NTFS partitions of the drive, but I can't figure out how to do that. It's not a big deal right now, but it'd be nice to share MP3s and stuff without copying them.

And hey don't forget to tell your friend to pay the $700 licensing fee to SCO group. #Rofl

Okay, if you don't get that joke, you are clearly not a linux weenie.

FingerDemon

Edit: Oh and for more info on different Distributions of linux, check out DistroWatch. I don't know the URL, google it. It has info on many, many different distributions.

sharkbyte · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2003 1:18 pm Post subject: