Is Mandrake known to have any problems on AMD systems?

[E Frank Ball]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:17:00PM -0700, Mark Street, D.C. wrote:
} Yeah, there is something else at work here......  In some instances a
} Mandrake RPM is NOT compatible with RedHat.  As a general rule only
} install RPMS that are created for your particular
} distribution...especially if you get dependency issues.

System type rpms, including X are often distribution specific, and
dangerous to mix.  Random standalone programs often work, and there is
no harm in trying rpms from other distributions if the worst that can
happen is it won't work.  Mandrake/redhat/turbo are all very similar.
SuSE is a little different, but RPMS often still work if you get the
right library version.  SuSE 6.X and RedHat 5.X rpms seemed to play well
together, so do Turbo and Redhat 6.  RedHat 7 is a bastard version
because of gcc, so not much else may work with it.

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   E Frank Ball                efball at efball.com