i am wondering which would be better: Fedora or Mandrake? I know apt can be used on RH and Fedora but what about mandrake? and which is faster?

Mandrake has an apt and also uses urpmi whic is similar (but not the same as apt) - the choice really is yours.

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o ok. so it does have apt? sweet. is mandrake faster than redhat or fedora?

Mandrake epitomizes the word bloated. Go for Fedora Core.

Neither are Zoom Zoom fast, it says in your disto column that you are using slack, I would re-compile the kernel and it will be a lot faster than mandrake of fedora.

from what i have seen it boils down to persoanl taste.

after what MDK10 did to my server when i finnaly got it to update, ill not go back to it. that is a personal choice and nothing more.

fedora C1 is very buggy and does not work with all of my on board devices for my laptop so i ended up dropping back to RH9 and am extreemly happy with that distro, with the exception i did something to lock mp3s out of the system. that is my goof that im trying to get help with to fix.

MDK10 is great off the install as is Fedora and RH. all 3 are nice off the install as they are very GUI based for the install and configuration. this tends to make things easy for a windows user to convert over IMHO.

i will be sticking with the RH9 as long as it is viable for me, and waiting for Fedora C2 to get out of test with good reviews in the reduction of bugs and more driver support.

[edit to add]

both RH9 and Fedora run about 2x faster then MDK10 did on my laptop.

P4 1.8
256M pc133 ram

so not an ubb3r laptop, but still winXP with full GUI junk runs better then MDK10 did. winXP without the GUI junk (striped out most of it and ran it for performance mode) runs just as fast as RH9 and slightly faster then FedoraC1.

reason i am wanting fedora or mandrake is b/c i can use apt on it, i know there i swaret for slackware but it isn't that great