lpret's Journal: Mandrake vs. Red Hat

I just finished reading the two reviews on OSNews.com of Mandrake 9.1 and Red Hat 9.0. It is actually quite amazing how different the two are.

When reading the Mandrake review, the biggest issues that came up were sound card drivers and a little latency issues. The sound card detected was the new generation instead of the old one.

Now compare this to Red Hat: 3 extra CDs to download, no mp3 or DVD support, manually configuring X to tell it that it was a laptop display panel, only openoffice.org packaged, networking isn't completely GUI yet.

Now, I'll give you that they are different reviewers so perhaps there are different things looked at, but seriously, in terms of use right out of the box, is there any way to choose Red Hat? I think not. Mandrake is better moving towards the idea that people want a well-functioning, full-featured PS right out of the box. Perhaps I'm not a Linux purist enough, but I see Mandrake 9.1 as being a heavy-hitter compared to Windows XP.