Wich is more userfriendly Redhat 8. or mandrake 9.

[Wolface]

Im almost new on linux, and I have read about mandrake being more user friendly. currently Im using red hat.

[guitargeek]

Mandrake, deffinitely. Red Hat is good, but Mandrake is gooder:D

Really, I tried both, but settled on Mandrake because it ran faster on my hardware, and had more graphical tools to help me out with. If you really have no clue what you're doing, Mandrake will be a lot less frustrating.

[Wolface]

make a bootloader for two different types of linux and windows xp in three different hard drives ???

so I will have mandrake, red hat and .... winxp...just in case :D

[chrisnu]

I triple-booted Mandrake/RedHat/Windows for a while, and I liked RedHat more than Mandrake. It contains plenty of GUI tools like Mandrake, and RedHat just looked more polished in my opinion. It's vain, but that's why I chose it. That and there are plenty of RPMs out there that are made for RedHat only..

[nrmx]

mandrake is more user friendly. I found Red Hat to be for a bit more experienced users.

[rikytik]

I've tried both RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 and find Mandrake slicker. I also found it to be more automatic during the install process.

[I'm A Penguin]

Try them both and decide for yourself :)

Both RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 installed easily and ran well on my machines.

I prefer RedHat, your mileage may vary.

[Raoul_Duke]

Never tried Mandrake but as a complete n00b to linux i found Red Hat 8 logical and easy to 'get the basics' (plus it does look very nice)

:cool:

[ricjohn]

once that was an impossible dream but with Mandrake it is a reality. Tried alot of distros Redhat Suse Caldera u name it tried it and Mandrake stands out by far

[Kilumina]

I am completely new as well, and after trying both Red Hat 8 and Mandrake 9, I am sticking with Red Hat 8. Although I know very little about linux so far, both distros seem to function about the same. I didn't know notice any difference in performance on my system, they both ran fast and smooth.

The reason I'm sticking with Red Hat? I could not *stand* the fonts in Mandrake!! Red Hat 8 has Anti-Alising built in, so the GUI looks for smooth and is easy to look at (Yeah, I'm one of those pretty-gui-design-guy freaks)

Basically, I would say try them both. Like I said before, for all general purposes, the functionality seems the about the same. I actually might have stuck with Mandrake if there was a way to get smooth, Anti-Aliased fonts... I'm currently working on trying to figure out how to get my Windows TTF fonts available in linux...

[hkctr]

I'm a noob myself. 3 months into Linux. When I first started I downloaded all the new distros as they came on the mirrors. I installed and tested 8 distros. I too, was nearly blinded by the terrible the fonts in Mandrake and stuck with RH 8.0 with its slick UI.

I kept RH as my workhorse distro on one partition and at least 2 other distros on other partiions to tweak and learn with no fear of messing up. As I learned more about linux, I became more and more disenchanted with RH. It is great as long as you use the software on their CD's. The package manager will not keep track of any other software you install. The last non-CD rpm I installed broke the package manager entirely. It lost all the package headers and now does a quick crash and burn when started.

In the meantime, I kept going back and re-installing Mandrake 9.0 on one of the partitions because I could find nothing better. I kept tweaking Mandrake and synchronizing the software with the workhorse RH so that they were identical in every way. That's how I broke RH, adding a non-CD rpm that was available for Mandrake. I can now say that Mandrake looks better than RH, works smoother, boots faster, has more up-dated software and clearer fonts than RH. The package manager is far superior and there is plenty of help on this and other forums about clearing up the fuzzy fonts. As a bonus, Mandrake is more fun because of all the tweaking you can do.

I am typing this on Debian unstable and having conquered this (well, sort of...) Mandrake is the new workhorse distro and I am going to wipe the RH partition and move on. Ummm, Gentoo sounds interesting......

[Jomboni]

Originally posted by Kilumina
I'm currently working on trying to figure out how to get my Windows TTF fonts available in linux... Are you still in Redhat 8?

If so, all you need to do, is, in your home directory, make a folder called .fonts (note the period), and copy all the fonts you want to use in there. That will allow you to use the fonts in most programs, except for OpenOffice.

Then, switch to root, and run oopadmin from a terminal. This will let you add those same fonts to OpenOffice.

[hkctr]

Kilumina - tried sending the screen pics you asked for but my reply was rejected. If you still want to see them, please give me another address to send them to.

[Wolface]

Im starting to like mandrake 9. maybe because I installed the nvidia drivers withowt problems... and other stufff while on redhat I spend a couple of days withowth results of any kind.... the only problem im getting right now is the partition of windows is crashing some programs like xmms after a couple of hours of use... weird

but personally Im starting to think mandrake is more user friendly...

[ShieldWolf]

Mandrake. The install and setup on Mandrake are almost as easy as it gets.

"What's easier?" you ask. Knoppix. That's what I'm using right now on a Win2000 machine at work. Just pop in the cd, reboot, pick your language, and let Knoppix do the rest. Almost too good to be true. :D