Mandrake or Fedora?

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Thu Jan 15 03:57:49 UTC 2004


Hi Clifford!

   I can see your view of Mandrake is well thought out and fair. I guess 
it is a question of taste in the end. I have experimented with many 
distro's since finding Linux a few years ago and I personally kept 
coming back to the RH distros. Maybe it's just me but the points I 
mentioned I do find to be true (while still acknoledging that others, 
with other interest and views, will find otherwise).

   The one thing I will say is the comment about cutting edge below. 
Fedora is "new" in the fact that it didn't exist a short time ago as a 
distro. It is far from new though as a distro itself in that it is a 
natural progression of Redhat 9.0. In fact, I liked it so much (the 
subtle improvements you spoke of) that I went back and installed Fedora 
on machines that not too long before I had installed Redhat 9.0 on. The 
majority of those improvements where usability improvements (like native 
and simple refresh rate and colour depth GUIs, native GUI support of 
multiple monitors and so on).

   I guess in the end it is to each his or her own. The parent of this 
thread was looking for opinions and of ours they got. It is now up to 
that person to choose their priorities based on our replies.

Madison

<mandrake stuff snipped>
> Never having touched Fedora, I am left wondering how different from Red 
> Hat it is. I suspect it is the "geek factor" that may be driving some 
> people to Fedora. By that I mean, there is a certain amount of bragging 
> rights that comes with being on the edge, having compiled a kernel, 
> manually installed modules, etc., not that I am suggesting one has to do 
> any of these things with Fedora but that distros that attempt to 
> simplify or eliminate the need to do these things are looked down upon 
> by some segment of the population. Those bragging rights only mean 
> something to other similarly inclined individuals. Then there is the 
> rest of the world where they do not (and should not) give a whit about 
> this sort of thing. All we have to do is look at the dismissive comments 
> some people make about OS X to see that mentality at work.
> 
> This reminds me of the headline I saw once said that said "Flash! Number 
> of Linux Distributions Surpasses Number of Linux Users!" Though it was 
> meant to be satirical, I think there is some element of truth to it. The 
> beauty (and curse) of Linux is that it can be customized almost 
> infinitely to suit one's preferences to the point of even creating one's 
> own distro.


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