Mandrake 9.1 vs. Red Hat 9.0 - A Tale of Two Workstations

#1 TrakerJon

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 04:02 AM

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Posted 13 April 2003 - 01:39 PM

Almost forgot...

You can find the Macromedia Flash 6 plug-in at (the Netscape plug-in link doesn't work...it requires flash ;( ) http://sdc.shockwave.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

RealPlayer 8.0 at: http://proforma.real.com/real/player/unix/unix.html?src=downloadr,000814rpchoice_c1

Sun's j2re-1_4_1_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html

(RH doesn't seem to like Sun's Java J2re plug-in)

Gtk-Gnutella can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4467

The current version of AIM is at: http://www.aim.com/get_aim/linux/latest_linux.adp

Reminder note: Mandrake 9.1 easily converts most MS True Type fonts for use with OpenOffice documents that can then be easily saved in alternative formats for those inferior Microsoft Office users

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Posted 18 April 2003 - 02:55 AM

You said:

(...) Mandrake and Red Hat both did a fairly good job of hardware recognition and there were no apparent software application configuration problems or errors after a post install reboot. (...)

My question is specifically about KDE Desktop Sharing with RH9. I was unable to use it. Can you use it?

I posted more details about this here in this forum.

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Posted 18 April 2003 - 04:13 PM

Hmmm I'm assuming you're talking about VNC, check your firewall settings and you might find these links helpful as well. Personally I don't like running client's like this on my home boxes for security reasons. 8)

http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/

http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/

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Posted 20 April 2003 - 08:30 PM

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Posted 28 April 2003 - 01:37 PM

Works very well with Mandrake 9.1 and I was able to help a few friends remotely.

I anticipate that this tool is going to give a huge boost to Linux because it will be much easier to support newbies and provide general maintenance via a remote connection.

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Posted 29 August 2003 - 07:20 AM

I'm using RH9 on both my laptop and personal workstation, I have successfully ran the desktop sharing feature and works very nicely. I have not experienced really any issues other than the default version of mozilla acting up, so I upgraded mozilla and everything is running awesome!