Thanks Norb,
That's what I was looking for.
Mike Manchester
--- Norbert Cartagena <niccademous@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Michael Manchester wrote:
> >
> > I've been using RedHat up to version 7.0 for a
> number
> > of years and was wondering how much like RedHat
> > Mandrake is ? It says on their page that it
> supports
> > RPMS. What about configuration files and
> filesystem?
> > Is it just like RedHat.
>
>
> Here's the deal: It's 90% like Red Hat (give or take
> a few points). I
> mean, the placement of the configuration files is
> generally the same,
> which is what I guess you'd want (stuff is still
> placed in /usr/local/
> as opposed to, say, SuSE which places things in /opt
> (usually really big
> programs like KDE or Bloatscape Communicator), and
> the config scripts
> are in the same place for stuff like XF86). In fact,
> it used to be that
> Mandrake was nothing more than Red Hat with a pretty
> dress (read -
> Mandrake 6.1, ancient). Now, note that the last
> version of Drake I used
> was 7.1 (7.2 was a personal dissaster and I've only
> used Red Hat and
> SuSE since), so my info IS probably a bit out of
> date. However, the
> differences between RH and Drake are mainly things
> like boot loaders
> (Drake, I believe, defaults to GRUB, but I'm
> unsure), and the actual
> File System (you can choose to go with ReiserFS or
> ext2 or both, though
> I think the new Drake also has support for ext3. RH
> is ext2 only, unless
> 7.1 offers something else). Other than that, the
> base setup is pretty
> simmilar. Well, except for the install.
>
> Moral of the story: You'll have to get used to some
> things, but not
> much. Drake and RH are pretty similar in most ways.
>
> Norb
>
>
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