On Saturday 04 May 2002 08:36 pm, George Walsh wrote:
To replace it, I ordered the new Mandrake ProSuite8.2 distro. It took me but 3 minutes to arrange to have it couriered from CompuSmart in Montreal next week and so I will not have to endure the Yast1 problem - although I
Let me get this straight. As a protest against SuSE dropping it's character mode only setup program, Yast1, you are switching to another distribution that is famous for it having more *graphical* setup programs than anyone else?!
am sure, inspite of Mandrake's overwhelming market position in Britain and Europe - that I will be introduced to other pies in the pasture :-)
From what I've seen in the sales figures, SuSE is more popular in Europe than Mandrake, and they are moving towards a public stock offering if you care about things like that... (Whether they are today is irrelevant; IBM is a partner with SuSE and has infused many millions of dollars into the company.) -- In Boston, it is illegal to hold frog-jumping contests in nightclubs.