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What are the Real Differences Between Distributions?

Posted by Cliff on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

toblak asks: "Everybody seems to say the Mandrake is a good distro for newbies and Gentoo, Debian, SUSE, etc, are for the Power Users. Other than different updating schemes, when you get 'under the hood' of the distribution isn't it basically the same? If I compile some source code on a Debian system don't I get the same functionality as I would if I compiled the same code on a Mandrake system? I've been using Mandrake for about a year and while I don't consider myself a newbie, I'm not a Power User either. Have I been 'missing out' on something by staying with Mandrake?"

2 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Yes you have been missing out by eht · · Score: 1, Troll

    apt-get has nothing on the freebsd's ports system, you're both missing out

  2. Re:Yes you have been missing out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    You're still missing out if you're not using Gentoo's Portage, a big improvement on Ports.