Comments on: The Showdown: Fedora 11 vs Mandriva 2009.1

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 20 May 2011 01:20:12 +0000

I hate Fedora. I’d rather use Mandriva, which I am going to switch to when 2011 comes out.

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Day 12, my current software setup | The Linux Experiment — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:32:41 +0000

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:47:09 +0000

How did you missed a most important factor “Hardware compatibility and support”. Then Mandriva will be the clear winner.

By: Tyler B

Tyler B — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:01:05 +0000

I don’t remember where I had found this but it was on Mandriva’s website somewhere…

By: linux_oid

linux_oid — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:47:52 +0000

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System Requirements

A fast operating system is one that leaves most of the system resources alone so your programs can take full advantage of them.

Fedora
400MHz Pentium II or better
Minimum RAM: 192MB for x86 or 384MB for x64
Recommended RAM: 256MB or 512MB for x64
Hard Disk Space: 90MB-9GB depending on what is installed

Mandriva
Any Intel or AMD processor
Minimum RAM: 256MB
Recommended RAM: 512MB
Hard Disk Space: 3GB-4GB

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Where did you get that Mandriva system requirenment?

Mandriva site gives this for One/Flash

Processor – Any Intel, AMD or VIA processor.
Memory & storage- RAM : 256 MB minimum, 1 GB recommended. Hard disk : 2 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended for a full setup.

I’m running 2009.1 on PII, 300M with 64M RAM on one of my boxes.
It was installed directly from the installation media (Mandriva Linux Free DVD).

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:15:29 +0000

+ Gut Instinct

Last but not least. I’d rather go with Mandriva than with Fedora as an end-user for several reasons :
1. Mandriva is less cuttings edge and tend to select carefully the features to implements. I’m not a beta-tester! I want to use my computer, not digging in bugzilla and internet for fixes and workarounds

2. Fedora is a testing ground for Red Hat to test and help the features mature before being integrated in RHEL. On top of that, support ( I mean security updates ) is shorter with Fedora, whereas all Mandriva versions are supported 2 years. Again as a user or an enterprise user, this is better, and upgrade between one release ot another one are smoother.

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:10:29 +0000

+ Multimedia support :
Please note that Mandriva have out of the box MP3 support, and thus since years ! The same goes for DivX support. However i do agree about out of the box encrypted DVD support ( please note the encrypted, as non encrypted DVD can be read from start )

+ kernel :
Latest kernel update in Mandriva is : kernel-desktop-2.6.29.6-2mnb

+ Security :
Concerning SELinux, whereas SELinux is a great security tool, it can hardly be setup easily by someone. So for the end user, SELinux give no advantage. On the contrary, Mandriva have MSEC which allow to control easily some security settings, and notify the user.
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/2009.1_Tour#new_MSEC_Mandriva_Security_Center

By: Jon F

Jon F — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:11:59 +0000

Cheaters.

By: Tyler B

Tyler B — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:29:50 +0000

There seems to be quite a bit of… varying opinion on the two distributions in questions; I blame my snappy headline . While I don’t disagree with the majority of what the commenters have been saying, nor do I pretend to know any better than anyone else, I just want to quickly give a little more insight into the reasoning behind some of my “winners” above. As I am mostly new to Linux, and completely new to both Fedora and Mandriva, I relied primarily on research to help direct me in my choice. Perhaps my above analysis, and thus the showdown outcome, was a direct result of the quality of readily information available regarding both distributions. In any event, I am glad to hear the varying opinions and hope that this sort of quality dialog continues throughout the duration of the experiment! Thanks and look forward to hearing more from you!

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Links 18/08/2009: (L)GPLv3 for GIMP, Tr.im Liberated | Boycott Novell — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:01:48 +0000

[...] The Showdown: Fedora 11 vs Mandriva 2009.1 Well it’s been a long week since I committed to choosing my distribution, but here we are finally. Come September 1st I am going to plop the Fedora 11 DVD in my computer’s optical drive and embark on a 4 month long journey of Linux discovery. Wish me the best! [...]