Redhat Installer & Mandrake Installer was Re: [TriLUG] different versions of 7.2 for sale]

[al johson]

Well 8.0 detected my Ensonic sound card (which was a plug-in card and not
manufactured on the motherboard) and played some music after installation!!
It also asked for the name and model of my printer and printed out a test
sheet, however, it still lacks some needed printer tools, such as
alignment,etc. (which to be fair may only be available from the printer's
manufacturer!!). In any case, it really does have excellent hardware
detection software in its loader. And I don't understand why every
distribution doesn't have excellent hardware detection software. This sort
of software has been around for years. Every card has ROM info that
identifies that card, and ditto for a lot of other items. I can understand
why it needs the name of monitor and printer, although I've even seen some
software able to read that info as well (but only in the Windows world---but
then I'm a LINUX newbie!!! :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: acoliver <acoliver at nc.rr.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:02 PM
Subject: Redhat Installer & Mandrake Installer was Re: [TriLUG] different
versions of 7.2 for sale]


> And the 64K question is:
>
> Can mandrake detect and install an integrated via chipset soundcard?  I
> might forget RH72 and go directly to M81 if it could do that.
>
> -Andy
>
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> >From: "al johson" <alfjon at mindspring.com>
> >To: <trilug at trilug.org>
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> >And the fact that Mandrake recognizes more varied hardware than Redhat
> >undoubtedly earns it the distribution of choice for desktop users as many
> >magazines say in the awards they hand out. I tell my friends that if you
> >want a desktop system get Mandrake, but if you want a server get Redhat
> >(because Redhat has become THE system for most of corporate America!).
> >Actually the fact that we have two distributions each specializing in
> >producing installations tailored for two different groups is really
great,
> >all the more so since Mandrake (unlike Debian, for example) uses the same
> >RPM system of loading software. Still I would like to see Redhat improve
> >it's loading software. My goal whenever I load any operating system is
> >that
> >the O.S. has installed every piece of hardware available on my system!!
> >and
> >produces a working O.S. (of course). The times I've used RedHat vs.
> >Mandrake, Mandrake has consistently installed more of my hardware
> >correctly
> >than Red Hat (because Red Hat usually required the use of software
OUTSIDE
> >the initial installation process to install things like modems, sound
> >cards,
> >printers, CD-RW's, etc. In other words, items which are not usually found
> >on
> >Servers!!
>
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