Its the thing that keeps most distros unique, the utilities. Install and admin utilities mostly. I've only dealt with Mandrake very tangentially but what I saw was their taking the "ease of use" part of the utilities and focusing on that. FWIW I still find SuSE easier. ;-) Jack. On Tuesday 03 April 2001 18:15, you wrote: > That's interesting. Do you know what the differences are? I assume they > both still keep their files in the same places and they both have most of > the same packages. Is the difference primarily kernel configuration or > what? > > Brady > > > > Mandrake and Redhat are sort of the same thing. Mandrake is based on > > > Redhat but with some extra stuff tacked on. > > > >This is no longer true. Each Mandrake release used to be based on the > >corresponding redhat release, with a few mods. Mandrake has gone it's > >separate way now and the only real similarity that Mandrake really shares > >with Redhat is the use of rpm for package management (Suse and a couple > >others also use rpm). > > > >Jay > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ > "Since we're going to die anyway we might as well be thinking something > really stupid." > - Nothing Man (leader of the "Brotherhood of Dada") > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list