Nevertheless, Mandrake tries to be as Red Hat compatible as is practicable.
They claim over 90% compatibility with Red Hat packages. This can be useful,
since most RPMs are built for Red Hat.
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 20:56, Paul wrote:
> It was Mon, 6 Aug 2001 23:42:59 -0500 when X - A - W - K wrote:
>
> Mandrake was built on the source code of Redhat 5.2. From there they went
> there separate ways.
> Mandrake is compiled optimised for Pentium processors where redhat is
> compiled for 386's.
> Paul
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just would like to ask somebody to explain me the main difference
> > between Linux Mandrake and RedHat.
> >
> >I just want to know the strong points of each one... For what is better to
> >use Mandrake... and for what RedHat?
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