My understanding is that the main difference is packageing. Having said
that Red Hat 6.0 uses a different kernel (2.2.5 I think). Mandrake uses
2.2.9 which has a few security problems in it. On the Mandrake updates page
it says that you need to upgrade the kernel in order to prevent a potential
network security flaw.
IF you are not going to be using a GUI (KDE integration is teh most
noticeable difference between the two diatributions) it probably doesn't
matter which one you use.
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> Subject: [newbie] Mandrake v. Red Hat - How close is close?
>
> I just told a Unix guy I know I was going to try and use Mandrake for
> doing
> some Web serving. He told me that he doesn't know that much about Linux,
> but that he'd heard Red Hat was the way to go for serving, because their
> socket layers were better.
>
> I imagine this is a debatable claim, but that's neither here nor there.
> I'm
> writing, because my understanding is that mandrake is just Red Hat with a
> better install program and some other stuff, but that the underlying code
> is identical. My friend's comment, though, made me want to question this.
> So is the only difference between REd Hat and Mandrake 'packaging', or am
> I
> wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
