Mandrake and Red Hat have different target markets. A few years ago, Red Hat
was seen as the "jack-of-all-trades" in the distro market. Nowadays, however,
distros are more specialised. Red Hat concentrates more on the server market
and does not focus on the consumer market like Mandrake does. In other words,
Red Hat does not try to be as user-friendly as Mandrake, especially in the
area of configuration tools. While both feature Linuxconf, I don't think Red
Hat has a graphical equivalent of the tools provided by DrakConf or an
installer as easy to use as Drakx (I could be wrong - I haven't used Red Hat
since version 6.0). Mandrake tries their best to be Red Hat compatible, and I
have had no problems using Red Hat RPMs with Mandrake. Red Hat uses GNOME as
its default desktop whilst Mandrake favours KDE. Both, however, allow you to
use the other with minimal fuss.
Without the graphical tools, Mandrake and Red Hat are almost identical, IMHO.
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:55, Dan Belkie wrote:
> In a debate over Flavors of Linux, How different would you say Mandrake is
> from Redhat?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dan Belkie
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