On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, George Greer wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Jesse Becker wrote: > >On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, George Greer wrote: > >> What does Mandrake do different from RedHat? > > > >They recompile everything, optimized for Pentium (and better) x86 chips. > >Things are packaged differently, and they (used to) default to using KDE > >instead of Gnome. In fact, Mandrake used to be pitched as "Redhat with > >KDE". There are some other differences regarding the installer, but > >all-in-all, they are quite similar. > > I'm aware of those differences. I meant in the compiling environment. :) > Having not used Mandrake, I don't know what libraries it has, the compiler > version, the C library version, or anything else about the specifics like > that. Well, let's see... The *base* version of Mandrake 8.1 ships with the following: gcc 2.96 gcc 3.0.1 (I think) glibc 2.2.4 autoconf 2.13 automake 1.4-20.p5 binutils 2.11.90.0.8 Kernel 2.4.8 (or 2.2.19) Base 8.2 ships with gcc 2.96 gcc 3.04 autoconf 2.13 and/or autoconf 2.52 automake 1.4 and/or automake 1.5 binutils 2.11.92.0.12 kernel 2.2.18 (or 2.2.20) I know that there have been updates since then, specifically glibc has been bumped to 2.2.5. --Hawson -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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