I am thinking of switching to Mandrake, mainly due to the fact that RedHat 7.2 is slooooooooow. Does Mandrake support NTFS?

P.S.

My system is the best.

there is very little difference in the two. You will not get any performance increase in changing, unless you have some sort of problem on your system which is slowing things down a lot.

both distro's support NTFS readonly. that's nothign to do with them, it's in the kernel, which is next to identical on those distro's.

and in case you think about trying to use Read Write on NTFS. DON'T. just DON'T.

and if your system is the best, then that indicates that you don't know how to use linux, or the concepts behind it. my redhat server is lovely and fast. and the machine is pants.

Well i noticed KDE is alittle more stable with the 2.2.2 release but its still slow as heck. And where do you get the idea that i can read the NTFS hard disk? i cant find any option anywhere!!

One more thing..is it easier to make a desktop shortcut in Mandrake becuase i heard its more user friendly than redhat which is a chore to do the simplist of things.

1) use gnome

2) user friendlyness isn't far from benig plain patronising. MD is just on the right side, but then all the user-friendly botl on's slow the system down and down, like anythign else does.

NTFS readnig is inside the kernel. the distirbuted kernel might not have ntfs supported, but you can easily recompile the kernel to support it. i've never used NTFS but i kow both my RH and MD installs both contain a compiled NTFS.o driver. There is plenty of information around on getting NTFS to work.

On all the computers ive tried, Mandrake runs MUCH slowing (in KDE) than Redhat because of how much junk they bloat it with.

If you are having problems with X running slow, get more ram. I have one computer with 128 and one computer with 256 (going on 1.5gb) and KDE runs great on both.

On a friend of mine's computer who at the time only had 32 (yikes!). KDE was UNUSABLE with Mandrake and slow but somewhat usable with Redhat.

I've never really been a fan of Mandrake and can't recommend it.

Don't you think 256MB crucial PC2100 ram running at 150Mhz is fast/large enough for basic work? i can waste another 70 on another stick of 256mb ram but i dont think i need to.

Mmm, okay i'll install GNOME. Count of hands how many people use GNOME?

Mmm, okay so upgrade to 512MB right? my motherboard supports 1.5GB max anyways so what do i have to spare.

btw, i'm not doing any intensive work (yet), this is just the basic KDE browser running all funky and junky like a jog turkey.

o. DDR. IC. um 256 should run KDE find........i dont have ddr and kde runs great....

Maybe KDE doesn't like AMD processors? should i try on my Intel system which is slower?

I have tried KDE using Mandrake 8.1 and Red Hat 7.2 and they are both very fast on my system - faster than Win2000 at any rate.

My spec:
AMD Tbird 1.4Gig, 1.2Gig PC133 RAM (Generic), 60gig 7200rpm IDE HD.

You won't get any speed increase by changing distros.

yeah, kde on my duron system runs faster than gnome does, so its not cpu related.

i'll just wait for redhat 7.3 then