[Stefano Papini]
I agree with the reliability and smoothness of Mandrake installation [...] anyway just to share with you yesterday night I checked my HDs behaviour
My first and only contact with Mandrake left me with a bad impression. I'm sorry to not remember the details (with the amount of email flowing here, I forget many things), but it was a bug report sent by the user of one of my packages, and he was asking that i alter my things so Mandrake would behave more nicely with them. From the description given, my feeling was that Mandrake was trying to push some new chrome of its own, that was doomed to break a lot of packages. It did not look very well thought. But of course, this is very partial, and I've read that many Mandrake users seem to be happy. I've heard that it is a French distribution, so it is becoming a bit popular in this French-speaking province, from what I read from schools. I've not been asked to look at it yet, however. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
François Pinard wrote:
My first and only contact with Mandrake left me with a bad impression.
My brief flirtation with RH was the same.
I'm sorry to not remember the details (with the amount of email flowing here, I forget many things), but it was a bug report sent by the user of one of my packages, and he was asking that i alter my things so Mandrake would behave more nicely with them. From the description given, my feeling was that Mandrake was trying to push some new chrome of its own, that was doomed to break a lot of packages. It did not look very well thought.
Of course, one of the biggest points to remember (and remark upon) in the Open-Source world, is that things are constantly changing! Yesterdays Lemon, can easily become tomorrows' Darling (the reverse applies as well!)
But of course, this is very partial, and I've read that many Mandrake users seem to be happy. I've heard that it is a French distribution, so it is becoming a bit popular in this French-speaking province, from what I read from schools. I've not been asked to look at it yet, however.
I feel that the best thing we can do for the Linux commmunity as a whole, is to say "I use Linux." Then, if someone asks the distro we are using, then by all means, plug your favourite! But try to avoid running down the other distro's, (even RH). See, I just did it myself, that is, put a negative connotation on a fellow Unix distribution! Did I achieve anything? No. All I did was create confusion in the mind of another Newbie. And who knows, that could have been the one final push he (she) needed to go back to the "comfortable" world of M$, where, even if there is no CHOICE, there are at least no DECISIONS to be made! -- Regards Don Hansford ECKYTECH COMPUTING Surfing the Net (without crashing) With SuSE 6.4 Linux (Thanx Linus!) "Microsoft democratised the computer market and served as a catalyst in making computers available to everybody. Later, however, they did as many revolutionaries do -- they became dictators. History has taught us the inevitable fate of dictators." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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