Hey,

I'm looking for some opinions on whether I should switch from Fedora Core 2 to Mandrake 10 or wait until Mandrake 10.1.

My PII-300MHz computer has a sound card (AWE64 ISA) that just doesn't seem to work in FC2. And my netword card's module is not loaded by default, which forced me to recompile. Both worked out of the box in Mandrake 9.2, so I suspect it will still work in Mandrake 10. And I can't seem to get my Windows fonts into FC2, whereas it was just a matter of going to the MDK Control Panel and clicking "Install fonts" when I used Mdk 9.2.

Should I switch? Advantages? Disadvantages?

anyone have an opinion?

i love fedora.. but it seems to be slow (but im running on an older pc = 600 mhz 160mb ram)

i love the look of fedora and i like the support out there for it as well.

now mandrake..
ive had some probs with..
but that could be the cd's im using..

ive learned more with fedora...

so my vote

Fedora

so do i, i love fedora and the look, but sadly, sound doesn't work.

i used mandrake 9.1, hated, it didnt see my modem or sound card, tried red hat 8, worked with both, tried mandrake 9.2 worked with both but was really buggy, fedora didnt work with my sound card till i put a more compatable one in. I also love the look of FC2, it runs fine on my 500 Mhz with 256 mb of ram. Havnt tried MDK10. I also love apt on fedora.

Check out this article, it talks in details about Fedora vs. Mandrake vs. Suse. Personally I think that Mandrake is the best. But if you are satisfied with what you have already, all you should do is just update your kernel and recompile it. I'm currently using 10.0 and I'm happy with it.

http://www.flexbeta.net/main/article...ion=show&id=70

This should help you out!

I have used both Mandrake and Fedora Linux, as well as Red Hat 9. In my opinion if you intergated video and sound then you should use Mandrake Linux, they seem to have very good drivers and packages, they have lots of different packages you can use. The computer I used for Mandrake Linux was an old IBM Aptiva with a 500mhz K6-2 processor, 192MB of RAM, and 8MB shared video. I also tried it with my new DELL 4550 desktop with a P4, 512MB RAM, and 64MB NVIDIA video card. And in my opinion I like Fedora better it works with everything I have. With Mandrake Linux I have to install kernel 2.4 with LSB support to use my Audigy MP3+ soundcard, and with Fedora it is automatically recognized. Though my joystick doesn't work with Fedora, but it does with Mandrake, my joystick is a USB Microsoft Sidewinder Gamepad. My Lexmark Z11 printer works with Mandrake, but not with Fedora. As for programs go, I have used the Mandrake fonts RPM with Fedora and it works fine. I have also used the MSFonts.spec. Mplayer, and Xine work fine with all media on Fedora, and I only got it working on the IBM with Mandrake. They are both really good, I like Fedora and I like Mandrake. So depends what you are using it for. If you want a good KDE then use Mandrake, if you like GNOME then use Fedora.

I like mandrake, switched from slack, couldn't get fedora to ever run on my ibm thinkpad, slack worked, but sadly no sound, mandrake gives the best of both worlds, it lets you optimize linux for your machine, but gives you the easy software install of a rpm. Support is good, and the driver base is huge. For a slower machine (p2 333) it runs well and even samba shares work with the XP boxes in the network!

Maybe someone should compile mandrake and fedora and call it mandora core

I don't want this to turn into a fight between factions, but I've played with both a good amount and find mandrake to be the better choice for a beginner/intermediate user. If you're an expert then it's really personal choice since really the "drivers" you speak of are almost all pretty standard as they are a part of the kernel source tree (though MDK does have some extra patches loaded often, e.g. the synatpics/alps touchpad in my laptop [hp zv5000z] and I'm guessing Fedora does too) and they're not too hard to setup manually so you could make devices work, come up on boot, etc. on either distro. I love those "Drake" tools that mdk has though, and also "msec" the security package. I will comment that the windows font import utility isn't quite as clean in mdk10 as it was in 9.2 so you're not disappointed if you upgrade.

I've used both and I like Fedora Core is much better than Mandrake (just my own opinion). Mandrake is too buggy. Some people say Mandrake is better because they have better hardware support but hardware drivers are all included in the kernel or otherwise with the case of winmodem you could easily download it from the Internet.

Also, I can't seem to run blender in Mandrake 10 because Mandrake doesn't install gcc 2.96 by default and doesn't even have an options to install it in both their package manager and installer. I did manage to find gcc2.96-cpp-.... in CD1 but it do no good. Whereas in Fedora Core 2 CD3 there are 2 RPMS that I could install to make blender work perfectly.

Thanks for that Econ7amada. That was a great article. I'm currently using SuSE, but am also wondering about distros... I've SuSE in my right hand and Fedora in my left and am not sure whether I should change to Fedora. Great article, really helped, thanks.

Mandrake is faster than Fedora out-of-the-box. Mandrake is Pentium/i586 optimized while Fedora is only i386 optimized. Who uses 386's anymore? **COUGH*COUGH** Everyone seems to have at least a Pentium-II these days so why not optimize for i686???

PII 300MHz?

Why don't you try some faster distro?
Such as slackware or debian.
I think mandrake/fedora is too big for your box.

My computer is 700MHz, thunderbird. I think redhat 9 on it is tooooo slow.

;-)

If you want speed, try FreeBSD, much faster than any Linux distro .